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.

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