En*vi"ron, adv. [F.] About; around. [Obs.]

Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes.

Fairfax.

En*vi"ron*ment (?), n. [Cf. F. environnement.] 1. Act of environing; state of being environed.

2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

It is no friendly environment, this of thine.

Carlyle.

En*vi"rons (?; 277), n. pl. [F.] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

En*vis"age (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Envisaged (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Envisaging (?).] [F. envisager; pref. en- (L. in) + visage face, visage. See Visage.] To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats.

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

McCosh.

En*vis"age*ment (?), n. The act of envisaging.

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