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provisio

provisio, a foreseeing, foreknowing

prōvīsĭo, ōnis, f. [provideo].
  • A foreseeing, foreknowing: provisio animi, Cic. Tusc. 3, 14, 30.—
  • II Foresight, providence: genus longā animi provisione fugiendum, Cic. Or. 56, 189.—
  • III Forethought, precaution for a thing: posteri temporis, Cic. Part. 20, 69: annonaria, i. e. a providing with provisions, purveying, Treb. Poll. XXX. Tyr. 18.—
      • 2 Hindrance, prevention of a thing: horum incommodorum una cautio est atque una provisio, ut, etc., Cic. Lael. 21, 78.

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