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purvey


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Purvey  \Pur*vey"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Purveyed};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Purveying}.]  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Purvey  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  purvey 
  v  :  supply  with  provisions  [syn:  {provision}] 




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