provide with power and authority, place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position, To formally give someone some power or authority, transitive To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose, To surround, accompany, or attend, intransitive To surround with troops or ships; besiege, To install in office with ceremony, noun_ meteorology An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system,