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   Provide , 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.]
   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.
   
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   To supply; to afford; to contribute.
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   Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit
   As the kind, hospitable woods provide.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
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   To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
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   To foresee. [A Latinism] [Obs.]
   B. Jonson.
   
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   To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
   Prescott.
   
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   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.
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   Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
   Burke.
   
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   To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
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