Category:Provide

Pro*vide", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provided; p. pr. & vb. n. Providing.] Etym: [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.

Note: [a latinism] [obs.] B. Jonson.

6. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor. Prescott.

Provide 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.