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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Provide \Pro*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Provided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Providing}.] [L. providere, provisum; pro before + videre to see. See {Vision}, and cf. {Prudent}, {Purvey}.] 1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. [bd]Provide us all things necessary.[b8] --Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide. --Milton. 3. To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with. [bd]And yet provided him of but one.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. [bd]Rome . . . was well provided with corn.[b8] --Arbuthnot. 4. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done. 5. To foresee. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 6. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See {Provisor}. --Prescott. | |
