purvey

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
purvey
    v 1: supply with provisions [syn: {provision}, {purvey}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey
            Yourself of sword before that bloody day. --Spenser.
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   2. To procure; to get.
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            I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the
            children of Benjamin.                 --Sir W. Scot.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. i.
   1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
      --Chaucer. Milton.
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   2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their
      malice." [R.] --Burke.
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