PURVEY

provision, purvey

(verb) supply with provisions

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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.

Proper noun

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



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