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Purvey   /pərvˈeɪ/   Listen
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Purvey  v. t.  (past & past part. purveyed; pres. part. purveying)  
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."
2.
To procure; to get. "I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin."


Purvey  v. i.  
1.
To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
2.
To pander; with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." (R.)





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... professional. He considered that he alone was authorized to purvey drama to the town; he considered that among all purveyors of drama he alone was respectable, the rest being upstarts, poachers, and lewd fellows. And as the dissenting ministers gazed at Mr Snaggs's superb moleskin waistcoat, and listened to his ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... Nicholas de Hereford, one of the Oxford leaders of the Lollards; the remainder, with the whole of the New Testament, being done by Wycliffe himself. About eight years after its completion the whole was revised by Richard Purvey, his curate and intimate friend, whose manuscript is still in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Purvey's preface is a most interesting old document, and shows not only that he was deeply in earnest about his work, but that he thoroughly understood the intellectual and moral conditions ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... Elf, said he, dost thou not weete That money can thy wants at will supply; Shields, steeds and armes, and all things for thee meet, It can purvey in twinkling of an ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... ever looked most to him. He will purvey me to a page's place in some noble household, and get thee a clerk's or scholar's place in my Lord of York's house. Mayhap there will be room for us both there, for my Lord of York hath a goodly following of ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... of warriors among its sons,—fighters of forest and fighters of sea. Braves must join one or the other army. The two are close allies. Only by the aid of the woodmen can the watermen build their engines of victory. The seamen in return purvey the needful luxuries for lumber-camps. Foresters float down timber that seamen may build snips and go to the saccharine islands of the South for molasses: for without molasses no lumberman could be happy in the unsweetened ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various


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