envisage — envisage, envision 1. Envisage is an early 19c loanword from French, meaning at first ‘to look in the face of’ and then (its current meaning) ‘to have a mental picture of (something yet to happen)’. Fowler (1926) dismissed it as an ‘undesirable… … Modern English usage
Envisage — En*vis age (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Envisaged} (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Envisaging}.] [F. envisager; pref. en (L. in) + visage face, visage. See {Visage}.] To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats. [1913 Webster] From the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
envisagé — envisagé, ée (an vi za jé, jée) part. passé. 1° Regardé au visage. Envisagé par l agent de police et aussitôt reconnu. 2° Regardé en esprit. Des périls envisagés avec sang froid … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
envisage — index compose, conceive (comprehend), conjure, invent (produce for the first time) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
envisage — 1778, from Fr. envisager look in the face of, from en cause to (see EN (Cf. en ) (1)) + visage face (see VISAGE (Cf. visage)). Related: Envisaged; envisaging … Etymology dictionary
envisage — envisage, envision conceive, imagine, *think, realize, fancy Analogous words: view, behold, survey, contemplate (see SEE): objectify, externalize, materialize, *realize … New Dictionary of Synonyms
envisage — / envision [v] picture in one’s mind anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, form mental picture of*, grasp, have a picture of*, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict,… … New thesaurus
envisagé — Envisagé, [envisag]ée. part. pass … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
envisage — ► VERB 1) regard or conceive of as a possibility. 2) form a mental picture of. ORIGIN French envisager, from visage face … English terms dictionary
envisage — [en viz′ij, inviz′ij] vt. envisaged, envisaging [Fr envisager: see EN 1 & VISAGE] 1. Rare to face; confront 2. to form an image of in the mind; visualize; imagine … English World dictionary
envisage */*/ — UK [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms envisage : present tense I/you/we/they envisage he/she/it envisages present participle envisaging past tense envisaged past participle envisaged a) to have something as a plan or an intention The… … English dictionary
