FromFrenchenvisager, fromen(“in”) +visage(“visage”); see Englishvisage.
- IPA(key): /ɛnˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/,/ɪnˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/
envisage (third-person singular simple presentenvisages,present participleenvisaging,simple past and past participleenvisaged)
- Toconceive or see something within one's mind; toimagine orenvision.
1860,James McCosh,The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated:From the very dawn of existence the infant mustenvisage self, and body acting on self.
1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, inModern Railways, page262:The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft asenvisaged as standard.
2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, inRail, page69:Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would haveenvisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guidedbusway?
to conceive or see something within in one's mind
- Bulgarian:представям си(predstavjam si)
- Finnish:kuvitella (fi),visioida,nähdä mielessään,kaavailla (fi)
- French:envisager (fr),prévoir (fr)
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:vorstellen (de)
- Greek:οραματίζομαι (el)(oramatízomai),φαντάζομαι (el)(fantázomai)
- Hungarian:előrelát (hu),elképzel (hu)
- Polish:przedstawiać (pl)
- Portuguese:imaginar (pt),conjeturar (pt)
- Russian:представля́ть (ru)(predstavljátʹ),вообража́ть (ru)(voobražátʹ),обду́мывать (ru)(obdúmyvatʹ),размышля́ть (ru)(razmyšljátʹ),рассма́тривать (ru)(rassmátrivatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:замислити,предочити
- Roman:zamisliti (sh),predočiti (sh)
- Spanish:imaginar(se),visualizar (es),concebir (es)
- Swedish:föreställa sig(reflexive)
- Turkish:öngörmek (tr)
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- “envisage”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “envisage”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
envisage
- inflection ofenvisager:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
