Hypertext Webster Gateway: "envisage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From the very dawn of existence the infant must
envisage self, and body acting on self. --McCosh.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
envisage
v : form a mental image of something that is not present or that
is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the
president?" [syn: {imagine}, {conceive of}, {ideate}]
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