Hypertext Webster Gateway: "providing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Provide \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.

Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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


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