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verb

Provide v. t. (past & past part. provided; pres. part. providing)

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."

To supply; to afford; to contribute. "Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide."

To furnish; to supply; formerly followed by of, now by with. "And yet provided him of but one." "Rome... was well provided with corn."

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.

To foresee. Note: (A Latinism) (Obs.)

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

Provide v. i.

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."

To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

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"Provide" Quotes from Famous Books

... settled, and when he came to see Angela that afternoon he had just had an interview with his chief, who had informed him of his appointment, and at the same time of his promotion to be captain. The expedition was to leave Italy in a few days, and he would have barely time to provide himself with what was strictly necessary for the climate. He explained all this to ...

— The White Sister • F. Marion Crawford

... or through part time connection with state surveys,—an arrangement with advantages to all concerned. The educational institution secures the benefit of the field experience which it cannot afford to provide, and is enabled to hold geologists at salaries far below their earning capacity. The geologist gains by the opportunity to alternate between office and field study, and to correct his perspective by the constant ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... describe that wondrous spread, or the heroes that partook of it? How, when Mr Richardson arrived, punctual and hungry, he found a table groaning under every delicacy the ingenuity and pocket-money of three juniors could provide; how the kidneys were done to a turn and the tea-cake to a shade; how jam-pots stood like forts at each corner of the snowy cloth; how hot rolls and bath buns lorded it over white loaf and brown; how eggs, boiled three minutes and five seconds by Heathcote's watch, peeped out among watercress and ...

— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... best defined of any of the desires—this alone is answered by no corresponding object: which is not different from what it would be, if the gods should create a race like ours, having the same craving and necessity for food and drink, yet never provide for them the one nor the other, but leave them all to die of hunger. Unless there is a future life, we all die of a worse hunger. Unless there is a future life, man is a monster in creation—compared with other things, an abortion—and in ...

— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware

... by hunger and haunted by fear, who cannot provide for the remote future, but must accept good or ill fortune as the accident of the day precipitates his lot upon him, lives and must live a life at but one remove from that of the brute. In such a life the instincts of man attain ...

— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton

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