Provided

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     2. 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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     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.
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     4. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as,
        the contract provides that the work be well done.
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     5. To foresee.
  
     Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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     6. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is
        vacant. See {Provisor}. --Prescott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost
           indifferent to their truth.              --G. H. Lewes.
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     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.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "provided":
     according as, accoutered, all ready, all set, armed,
     armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, catered, coached,
     cocked, endowed, equipped, familiarized, fitted, fitted out,
     furnished, good and ready, groomed, heeled, if, in any case,
     in arms, in battle array, in case, in case that, in either case,
     in readiness, in the saddle, informed, invested, it being provided,
     just in case, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized,
     on condition, on condition that, on the mark, outfitted, planned,
     prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed,
     provided always, provided that, providing, psyched up, purveyed,
     ready, ready for anything, rigged, ripe, set, subject to, supplied,
     up in arms, vigilant, well-prepared, with the stipulation,
     with the understanding, with this proviso