previsage

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previsage (third-person singular simple present previsages, present participle previsaging, simple past and past participle previsaged)

  1. (transitive) To envisage in advance; to foresee.
    • 1986, Richard Wollheim, The Thread of Life, page 262:
      Characteristically I previsage events or sequences of events that I believe will happen. When I do so, I represent these events to myself, and I represent them as, or more or less as, I believe that they will be.
    • 2020, James Bernard Murphy, Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood, page 157:
      Naturally, we cannot previsage our own deaths, though we can previsage a process of dying.