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Purvey   /pərvˈeɪ/   Listen
verb
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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"Purvey" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lanier entered the sophomore class of Oglethorpe, where it was unlawful to purvey any commodity, except Calvinism, "within a mile and a half of the University"—a sad regulation for college boys, who, as a rule, have several ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... you, Benjamin, the youngest and weakest, shall stay at home and keep house; we others will go abroad and purvey food." ...
— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
... present and future ought now to succeed to the emotional experiences of the actual war. The reading public has been gorged and surfeited with war literature, a fact which has been only too painfully realized by publishers and editors, who purvey for its appetite and have overstocked the larder. Coincident with this has come an immense wave of national prosperity and consequent business activity, which increasingly engross the attention of men's minds. ...
— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan
... and when victuals begin to fail in the desert, they kill their camels and asses and eat them. They mostly make it their choice to use camels, because they are sustained with little meat, and bear great burdens. They must purvey victuals for a month to cross it only, for to go through it lengthways would require a year's time. They go through the sands and barren mountains, and daily find water; yet at times it is so little that it will hardly suffice fifty or a hundred men with their beasts; and in three or four ...
— Old Roads and New Roads • William Bodham Donne
... not here,' said the Archbishop, 'that shall achieve the sword, but doubt not God will make him known. But this is my counsel,' said the Archbishop, 'that we let purvey ten knights, men of good fame, and they to keep ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall


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