envisage

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  1. transitive verb To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility: envisaged a world at peace.
  2. transitive verb To consider or regard in a certain way.

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  • All that he could envisage was a perpetual journey backward, backward, ever backward: the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, Rome, Greece, Babylon, Egypt, the Ice Age. —  FSF,October2007
  • What he did not envisage was the extent to which it would spiral. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • What I envisage is somewhat similar to what you do with a post you submit to the researchblogging site, except that rather than providing a doi, you associate your post with a location (either by clicking on a map, or providing specific co-ordinates), and a time period (by clicking on a timescale, or inputting your own age range). —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • ( "We do not envisage, as some have advocated, a rigid divide in future between" narrow banking "- retail and corporate deposit taking - and investment banking and trading conducted at an international level.") —  Telegraph Blogs
  • Some aspire to a full-blooded theocracy while others envisage a degree of popular decision-making - at least up to the point where it conflicts with the "principles of Islam" —  The Guardian World News
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French envisager : Old French en-, in; see en-1 + Old French visage, face; see visage.

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  1. from French envisager, from en, in, + visage, visage: see visage.
 

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