The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provision \Pro*vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provisioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Provisioning.] To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
They were provisioned for a journey.
--Palfrey.
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vb. (en-past of: provision)
Usage examples of "provisioned".
MAY-FLOWER--of Delft Haven --poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charter-party for coined dollars,--caulked with mere oakum and tar, provisioned with vulgarest biscuit and bacon,--yet what ship Argo or miraculous epic ship, built by the sea gods, was other than a foolish bumbarge in comparison!
With incredible exertions, two half-scuttled ships in the harbour were fitted up and provisioned within three days, and upon them the French sailed for Port Margot.
There they careened and provisioned, and being joined by two other Jamaican privateers commanded by Sawkins and Harris, sailed for Golden Island, whence on 5th April 1680, with 334 men, they began their march across the Isthmus of Darien to the coasts of Panama and the South Seas.
He provisioned her for the sea, and manned her with about 400 men, mostly soldiers from the Porto Bello forts.
It was now the 8th, and the two bomb ketches had to be watered, provisioned and anchored outside Porto Ercole by the 13th, when the frigates were due.
That was arranged, and according to the orders I had already received my three frigates provisioned and watered in Toulon for three months.
Indentured servants were provisioned with arms and housed in makeshift barracks.
I thought the Emperor provisioned Calmemunis and the others, made it possible for them to march in the first place.
Not only would the Men of the Tusk find themselves painlessly provisioned, they would be ensured the guidance of Ikurei Conphas as well, the greatest military intellect in generations.
Emperor who willingly provisioned the Vulgar Holy War, even though he knew it was almost certain to be destroyed.
Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.
President of the United States knows that Fort Sumter can not be provisioned without the effusion of blood.
We posted sentries on shore, and not laying down our oars, we ate the food that the renegade had provisioned, and prayed with all our hearts to God and Our Lady that they help and favor us and allow us to bring to a happy conclusion what had begun so auspiciously.