*envi*

v. i. [ See Vie. ] To vie; to emulate; to strive. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. envios, F. envieux, fr. L. invidiosus, fr. invidia envy. See Envy, and cf. Invidious. ] 1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul is envious of mine eye. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Prov. xxiv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inspiring envy. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He to him leapt, and that same envious gage
Of victor's glory from him snatched away. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Excessively careful; cautious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No men are so envious of their health. Jer. Taylor.

-- En"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- En"vi*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Environed p. pr. & vb. n. Environing. ] [ F. environner, fr. environ about, thereabout; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. viron circle, circuit, fr. OF. & F. virer to turn, LL. virare to turn up and down, topsy-turvy. Cf. Veer. ] To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dwelling in a pleasant glade,
With mountains round about environed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Environed he was with many foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ F. ] About; around. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. environnement. ] 1. Act of environing; state of being environed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara. Michael Borowitzka (“Natural event spawns environmental disaster” in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Envisaged 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of envisaging. [ 1913 Webster ]