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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
envisage
 
SYLLABICATION:en·vis·age
PRONUNCIATION:  n-vzj
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: en·vis·aged, en·vis·ag·ing, en·vis·ag·es
1. To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility: envisaged a world at peace. 2. To consider or regard in a certain way.
ETYMOLOGY:French envisager : Old French en-, in; see en–1 + Old French visage, face; see visage.
 
 
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