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t. [ Thei be-hilde the town that was right feire, and well sette in feire contrey and holsom air, ffor the town was envyroned a-boute with the wode and the river. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 545. Methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears. She was environed on every point of her territory by her warlike foe. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., vii. 2t. To go about; pa around; traverse the circuit of. F. environs, pl., Small streams, brought from the Cydnus, traverse the environs. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 233. envisage (en-viz'āj), v. t .; pret. and pp. en visaged , ppr.envisaging . [ F.envisager , en , in, + visage , visage: see visage .] To look in the face of; face; view; regard; hence, to apprehend directly; perceive by intuition: sometimes, as a term of philosophy, equivalent to intuit . To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. Keats , Hyper i on, ii. Nature, to the Buddhist, is envisaged as a nexus of laws, which reward and punish impartially both obedience and disobedience. J. F. Clarke , Ten Great Religions, i. § 7. We can only affirm and mentally envisage the one [idea] by denying and suppre ing the representation of the other; and yet we have to strive to predicate both, and to embody them together in the same mental image. envisagement (en-viz'āj-ment), n. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 69. [ visage ment ; as envisage + -ment .] The act of envisaging; view; apprehension: as a term of philosophy, equivalent to intuition (which see). In the Schoolmen, likewise, Plat on i zing Christianity rises to an envisagement of its significance and function. Jour. Spec . Philos ., XIX. 49.