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Webster 1913 Edition
Purvey
Pur-vey′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Purveyed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Purveying
.] 1.
To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Give no odds to your foes, but do
Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
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′
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Purvey
PURVEY
,Verb.
T.
1.
To provide; to provide with conveniences.2.
To procure.PURVEY
,Verb.
I.