Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Envisage   Listen
verb
Envisage  v. t.  (past & past part. envisaged; pres. part. envisaging)  To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. (R.) "From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Envisage" Quotes from Famous Books



... take your stand, please, on the Mountain of the Gods: the time, in or about the year 39 B.C.:—and thence try to envisage the world as Those do who guide but are not involved in the heats and dusts of it. The Western World; in which Rome, caput mundi, was the only thing that counted. Caput mundi; but a kind of idiot head at that: inchoate, without co-ordination; maggots scampering through what might have been the ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... historical origin of a dogma, but, with a strange dullness of the historical sense, he regards this as a reason for the existence of the dogma now, not merely as reason for its having existed in the past. Those historical elements he could not envisage in the historical method, because this method is only one of the applications, the most fruitful of them all, of ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various



Words linked to "Envisage" :   picture, fantasize, image, visualize, visualise, ideate, dream, stargaze, woolgather, figure, prefigure, foresee, imagine, daydream, create by mental act, see, create mentally, fantasy, conceive of, envision, project, fantasise, fancy



Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com