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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Purvey

Pur·vey′ (pûr·vā′), 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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.