Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
provision, purvey
(verb) supply with provisions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)
(intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
(transitive) To furnish or provide.
(transitive) To procure; to get.
Purvey
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Pur*vey", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying.] Etym: [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.]
1. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser.
2. To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.
Pur*vey", v. i.
1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.