0 present participle of envisage --
1 to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good: --
He wasn't what I'd expected - I'd envisaged someone much taller.
[ + question word ] It's hard to envisage how it might happen.
[ + -ing verb ] When do you envisage finishing the project?
[ + that ] It's envisaged that building will start at the end of this year.
Train fare increases of 15 percent are envisaged for the next year.
We now appear to be envisaging a position in which the bookseller, author and publisher are all equally liable to criminal proceedings.
I do not think the imagination of any normal person need be unduly strained in envisaging the situation that would then present iteslf.
Therefore, we must be able to withstand a long war, as well as envisaging a short, horrible nuclear exchange that would end with mutual devastation.
He is not envisaging a many-valued logic.
Such an envisaging might even be expected: it is a cliché of audio-visual theory that music mirrors the form, design and mood of the image in rational, decipherable ways.
Envisaging the future has to be based on trend projections, or a theoretical framework, or on logical or reasonable supposition - or perhaps pure speculation (if there is such a thing).
Physical complexity, on the other hand, can be such that the conventional solutions, envisaging joint consumption and use, are inadequate means of aligning effectively the institutional devices with physical reality.
The second was the apocalyptic envisaging of the rise, degeneration and fall of civilisations as propounded in the writings of both scholarly and popularising twentieth-century metahistorians.
