Definition of Purviy
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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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