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To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.

So as to throw into ecstasy.

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.

f; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats. From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh.

The act of envisaging.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

A disemboweling.

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.

To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke.

Heavy; dull. [Prov.]

To improvise; to extemporize.

or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Same as Improvisate.

An improviser, or improvvisatore.

See Improvvisatore.

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

See Improvvisatrice.

arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation. Charles attempted to improvise a peace. Motley.