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noun

Provision n.

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation. "Making provision for the relief of strangers."

Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; often in the plural. "And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast."

That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.

(R. C. Ch.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

(Eng. Hist.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.

verb

Provision v. t. (past & past part. provisioned; pres. part. provisioning) To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison. "They were provisioned for a journey."

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"Provision" Quotes from Famous Books

... as tinder, and the ground was strewed with broken atoms of timber from the trees, each of which a spark would ignite. Two nights Harry slept in his bed, but on the third he was on horseback about the run, watching, thinking, endeavoring to make provision, directing others, and hoping to make it believed that his eyes were every where. In this way an entire week was passed, and now it wanted but four days to Christmas. He would come home to breakfast about seven in the morning, ...

— Harry Heathcote of Gangoil • Anthony Trollope

... title to the area by the prevailing doctrine of right by discovery and later by the generally accepted doctrine of effective occupation. As stated in the charter to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 with essentially the same provision included in the first charter of Virginia in 1606, the colonizers were authorized to occupy land "not actually possessed of any Christian Prince, nor inhabited by Christian People." Over the Indians the British maintained a "limited ...

— Mother Earth - Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 • W. Stitt Robinson, Jr.

... of thrift is to spend less than you earn, to save something however small from the salary received, to lay aside at regular intervals when possible some part of the money earned or made, in provision ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... the project. The bill referred to had been passed by the House on Feb. 27. It provided that those colonies which voluntarily voted contributions for the common defence and support of the English government, and in addition made provision for the administration of their own civil affairs, should be exempt from taxation, except such as was necessary for the regulation of trade. It has been declared by some that the measure was meant m good faith and that its ...

— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America • Edmund Burke

... up as well, and followed the oxen; while, as fast as they could be got ready, three more provision-wagons were despatched, the whole making a long broken convoy on its way ...

— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

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