Defn: About; around. [Obs.]
Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax.
ENVIRONMENT
En*vi"ron*ment, n. Etym: [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.
ENVIRONS
En*vi"rons, n. pl. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
ENVISAGE En*vis"age (; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Envisaged (; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Envisaging.] Etym: [F. envisager; pref. en- (L. in) + visage face, visage. See Visage.]
Defn: 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.
ENVISAGEMENT
En*vis"age*ment, n.
Defn: The act of envisaging.