provant

English

Adjective

provant (comparative more provant, superlative most provant)

  1. (obsolete) Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.
    • Ben Jonson
      a poor provant rapier

Noun

provant

  1. (obsolete) provender; food
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.

Verb

provant (third-person singular simple present provants, present participle provanting, simple past and past participle provanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.
    • 1599, Thomas Nash, Nashe's Lenten Stuffe‎:
      ...should not only supply her inhabitants with plentiful purveyance of sustenance, but provant and victual moreover this monstrous army of strangers […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for provant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Catalan

Verb

provant

  1. present participle of provar
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