资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Provisor \Pro*vi"sor\, n. [L., fr. providere: cf. F. proviseur.
   See {Provide}.]
   1. One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] ``The chief provisor
      of our horse.'' --Ford.

   2. (R. C. Ch.)
      (a) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious
          house. --Cowell.
      (b) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See
          {Provision}, 5. --P. Plowman.

   3. (Eng. Hist.) One who procures or receives a papal
      provision. See {Provision}, 6.