different between envisage vs foreknow

English

Etymology

From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?z?d?/, /?n?v?z?d?/

Verb

envisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)

1. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
   • 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

     From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

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Further reading

• envisage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• envisage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Verb

envisage

1. first-person singular present indicative of envisager
2. third-person singular present indicative of envisager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
5. second-person singular imperative of envisager

Anagrams

• vengeais

English

Etymology

From Middle English forknowen, equivalent to fore- +? know. Replaced Old English f?rwitan, f?rewitan (“to foreknow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f???n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???no?/

Verb

foreknow (third-person singular simple present foreknows, present participle foreknowing, simple past foreknew, past participle foreknown)

1. To have knowledge of beforehand.

   • God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.

   • 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confe??ion of the Fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Ro?ie Cro?s; with a Præface annexed thereto, and a ?hort Declaration of their Phy?icall Work (London, Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black ?pread Eagle at the We?t end of Pauls), pages 1–2 of “The Epi?tle to the Wi?e and Under?tanding Reader”

     Wi?dom…is to a man an infinite Trea?ure, for ?he is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ?he is the Brightne?s of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Maje?ty of God, and an Image of his Goodne?s; ?he teacheth us Soberne?s and Prudence, Righteou?ne?s and Strength; ?he under?tands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ?entences; ?he foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ?hall happen in time to come.

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• foreknowledge

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