Providing

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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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