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Provide

Provide (provide)
v. t.(?)
Pro*vide"
[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.

Provide

Provide (provide)
v. i.
Pro*vide"
  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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