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Definition of Provided
Provided Provided Pro*vid"ed, conj.
On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; --
usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this
act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.
Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost
indifferent to their truth. --G. H. Lewes.
Note: This word is strictly a participle, and the word being
is understood, the participle provided agreeing with
the whole sentence absolute, and being equivalent to
this condition being previously stipulated or
established.
Provided 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.
