envisage(v = verb.creation) conceive of, ideate, imagine - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"
is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Sample sentences: Did he envisage his major works over a short period of time?

   To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. Keats. [1913 Webster]
"From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self." [1913 Webster]

envisage, v.tr.
1 have a mental picture of (a thing or conditions not yet existing).
2 contemplate or conceive, esp. as possible or desirable.
3 archaic a face (danger, facts, etc.). b look in the face of.

Derivative:
envisagement n.

Etymology:
F envisager (as EN-(1), VISAGE)