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Provide
v. t.
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To foresee.
Provide
v. t.
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To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
Provide
v. i.
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To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
Provided
conj.
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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.
Providence
n.
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The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
Providence
n.
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Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
Providence
n.
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A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
Providence
n.
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Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.
Provident
a.
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Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.
Providential
a.
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Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.
Providently
adv.
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In a provident manner.
Providentness
n.
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The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
Provider
n.
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One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
Providore
n.
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One who makes provision; a purveyor.
Province
n.
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A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
Province
n.
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A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
Province
n.
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A region of country; a tract; a district.
Province
n.
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A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.
Province
n.
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The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
Province
n.
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Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
Provincial
a.
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Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
Provincial
a.
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Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
Provincial
a.
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Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
Provincial
a.
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Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
Provincial
n.
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A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
Provincial
n.
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A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
Provincialism
n.
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A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Provincialist
n.
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One who lives in a province; a provincial.
Provinciality
n.
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The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
Provincialized
imp. & p. p.
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of Provincialize