Provide
Provide , transitive verb
[Latin providere, provisum; pro before + videre to see. See Vision, and compare 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.
2.
To supply; to afford; to contribute.
Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit
As the kind, hospitable woods provide.
3.
To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
And yet provided him of but one.
Rome... was well provided with corn.
4.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
[A Latinism]
5.
To foresee. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
6.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor. — Prescott
Provide , intransitive verb
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.
2.
To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.