provise Save DMLBS provise [ML < CL provisus p. ppl. of providere+-e] , with foresight or forethought, prudently. provisum est et communi consilio ~e, ut sibi videbatur, statutum G. Steph. 65 p. 130; provisus ‥ unde ~e adverbium Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 596.