visioned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of vision.

   The architect visioned a city free of cars.

   By spring they had visioned every stage of the project.

   Note

   An ordinary regular form: one spelling serves as both the simple past and the participle after have or be. The verb is transitive in all its meanings, so it wants an object: you vision something. The same spelling is also the adjective of the 'seen in visions' meaning, so a phrase like visioned bliss can be read either way.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a specified quality of vision, named by an accompanying descriptive word.

   The clear visioned navigator guided the ship safely past the reef.

   Soldiers who are sharp visioned are often chosen as lookouts.

   Similarsighted, eyed

   Note

   Built from vision plus the -ed that means 'having', this sense almost never stands alone. It needs a word in front saying what kind of sight is meant, and the pair is hyphenated before a noun: a weak-visioned person. The first element carries the real meaning, so the choice matters: clear-, sharp- and keen- praise the eyes, and weak- faults them.

3. 3
   adjectiveobsolete

   Seen in a vision; existing only as something envisioned rather than as part of waking reality.

   The poet described visioned spires rising above a sea of cloud.

   [E]arth has seen Love's brightest roses on the scaffold bloom, Mingling with freedom's fadeless laurels there, And presaging the truth of visioned bliss.

   1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

   Note

   Here the word turns around: the noun it modifies is the thing seen, not the seer. Queen Mab uses both meanings, with 'visioned bliss' alongside the 'inspired' meaning. In older verse, the noun tells you which one is intended: a visioned poet sees, while visioned bliss is seen. Today envisioned does this work, and visioned appears only as a conscious echo of that style.

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