Meanwhile, the government of the newly-formed state of Estonia envisaged the creation of a digital society where all citizens would be technologically literate and governance would be paperless, decentralized, transparent, efficient, and equitable.
Estonia Is a ‘Digital Republic’—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone’s Future|Dr. Imtiaz Khan|October 15, 2020|Singularity Hub
I think that people don’t take it seriously just because it’s hard to envisage a fundamental theory that would make that happen and be consistent with other things we assume to be true about the universe.
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End|Dan Falk|June 22, 2020|Quanta Magazine
All three envisage Assad staying in power—at least in the short term.
The Obama Administration Has Assad Amnesia|Jamie Dettmer|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a darkened movie theater, we allow filmmakers to deliver into our minds a false world to envisage.
The Science of Weepies: Why We Love Crying at the Movies|Elizabeth Picciuto|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He triumphed because he had the moral imagination to envisage a relationship beyond confrontation and war.
What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Barack Obama About Dealing With Iran|Peter Beinart|September 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Does he envisage the possibility of a political stalemate in Iraq?
Paul Bremer's Victory Lap|Tunku Varadarajan|March 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Granada had asked and been granted seventy days in which to envisage and accept her fate.
1492|Mary Johnston
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.
Adventures among Books|Andrew Lang
Polter continued standing, I could envisage his sardonic grin.
Beyond the Vanishing Point|Raymond King Cummings
We cannot envisage them unless we manage to invest them with some of the freshness which is due to strangeness.
The Concept of Nature|Alfred North Whitehead
I could envisage the triumphant curiosity, of Potan and his fellows up there, gazing along the beam.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930|Various
British Dictionary definitions for envisage
envisage
/ (ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ) /
verb(tr)
to form a mental image of; visualize; contemplate
to conceive of as a possibility in the future; foresee
archaicto look in the face of; confront
Derived forms of envisage
envisagement, noun
Word Origin for envisage
C19: from French envisager, from en-1 + visage face, visage
usage for envisage
It was formerly considered incorrect to use a clause after envisage as in it is envisaged that the new centre will cost £40 million, but this use is now acceptable