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.
"
Provide us all things necessary."
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.
"And yet
provided him of but one."
Jer. Taylor. "Rome . . . was well
provided with corn."
Arbuthnot.
4.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
5.
To foresee.
[A
Latinism] [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
6.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
Prescott.
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Pro*vide", v. i.
1.
To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Burke.
2.
To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
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