[f. prec.]
1. trans. To show as in a vision; to display to the eye or mind. Also with out.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., Wks. (Grosart), V. 129. Euen as the age of goates is knowen by the knots on their hornes, so think the anger of God apparently visioned or showne vnto thee in the knitting of my browes.
1802. H. Martin, Helen of Glenross, III. 254. Should I return and behold the tomb you have affectingly visioned.
1887. Rider Haggard, She, 192. Mankind asks ever of the skies to vision out what lies behind them.
b. To call up a vision of.
1902. Academy, 25 Jan., 100/1. Those eyes, that hair, vision up Spanish princes.
2. To see as in a vision; to bring before the eye of the mind. Also with forth.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, VIII. 135. We in the morning eyed the pleasant fields Vision’d before.
1816. J. Wilson, City of Plague, II. i. 63. I too am his brother, though his face was only vision’d sweetly in my soul.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. iv. § 5. That we may be able to vision forth the ministry of angels beside us.
1876. Meredith, Beauch. Career, xxxiii. Gentlemen of an unpractised imaginative capacity cannot vision for themselves exactly what they would.
3. intr. To take a view; to look.
1898. Meredith, Odes Fr. Hist., 6. Up that midway We vision for new ground.
