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Webster 1913 Edition

Provide

Pro-vide′

,
Verb.
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.
[A Latinism]
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
6.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See
Provisor
.
Prescott.

Pro-vide′

,
Verb.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Provide

PROVI'DE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. provideo,literally to see before; pro and video, to see.]
1.
To procure beforehand; to get, collect or make ready for future use; to prepare.
Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering. Gen.22.
Provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses. Matt.10.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Rom.12.
2.
To furnish; to supply; followed by with.
Rome, by the care of the magistrates, was well provided with corn.
Provided of is now obsolete.
3.
To stipulate previously. The agreement provides that the party shall incur no loss.
4.
To make a previous conditional stipulation. [See Provided.]
5.
To foresee; a Latinism. [Not in use.]
6.
Provide, in a transitive sense, is followed by against or for. We provide warm clothing against the inclemencies of the weather; we provide necessaries against a time of need; or we provide warm clothing for winter, &c.

PROVI'DE

,
Verb.
I.
To procure supplies or means of defense; or to take measures for counteracting or escaping an evil. The sagacity of brutes in providing against the inclemencies of the weather is wonderful.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

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