Definition of "envisage" []

• To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility: envisaged a world at peace. (verb-transitive)
• To consider or regard in a certain way. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A good measure which everybody can envisage is the little wooden coat hanger, with a wire hook on the top."
• "It was natural in Mr. Morris to "envisage" the Greek heroic age in this way, but it would not be natural in most other writers."
• "Mr. Green's pupils could generally write in his own language, more or less, and could "envisage" things, as we said then, from his point of view."