provided (part. and < Copy link • provided (part. and adj.): instructus, rĕfertus (well-provided), praedĭtus: v. furnished. (Instructus is used quite as adj., and compared, instructior, instructissimus: Cic.) Phr.: to be abundantly p. with anything, abundare aliqua re, Cic. Sen. 16, 56: somewhat less strong is, suppetere, id. Cat. 2, 11, 25.