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provide
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?vide? (“I foresee, I act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???va?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- To make possible or attainable.
- (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- provide such natives to the to the higher dignities of the church
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
Usage notes
As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).
Derived terms
- provider
Related terms
- provision
Translations
Anagrams
- prevoid
Galician
Alternative forms
- provinde
Verb
provide
- second-person plural imperative of provir
Italian
Verb
provide
- third-person singular past historic of provedere
Anagrams
- deprivo, deprivò
- provedi
Latin
Etymology
From pr?vidus (“prophetic, prudent, cautious”) +? -?, from pr?vide? (“foresee, be cautious”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pro?.u?i.de?/, [?p?o?u??d?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pro.vi.de/, [?p???vid??]
Adverb
pr?vid? (comparative pr?vidius, superlative pr?vidissim?)
- carefully, prudently
Verb
pr?vid?
- second-person singular present active imperative of pr?vide?
Noun
pr?vide
- singular vocative of pr?vidus
References
- provide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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vouchsafe
English
Etymology
vouch +? safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?va?t??se?f/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [?v??t??se?f]
- Rhymes: -e?f
- Hyphenation: vouch?safe
Verb
vouchsafe (third-person singular simple present vouchsafes, present participle vouchsafing, simple past and past participle vouchsafed)
- To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
- To receive or accept in condescension.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
- Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
"Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
- Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 8:
- To disclose or divulge.
- She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vouchsafe.
Synonyms
- deign
Related terms
- vouchsafement
- vouchsafing
Translations
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