provident

adjective3

1. •
   Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

   • I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, Courage and hope both teaching him the practise, To a strong mast that lived upon the sea — 1601
2. •
   Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.

   • Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse, just in our charges, provident of our time, watchfull in our dutie, carefull of every word we speak. — 1658
3. •
   Providing (for someone’s needs).

   • These advantages [the soil] receives from the culture of seeds, exclusive of the rest and manure, which is scattered upon it by that most provident of all cattle, sheep […] — 1794