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third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged
To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision. quotations examples
From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated
The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.
1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262
Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would have envisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guided busway?
2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69