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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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"Purvey" Quotes from Famous Books



... line, a line, a gude straight line, O King, purvey me quick! And see it be of thilka kind That's ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... I 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
... he had originally been a boat-builder on the Thames, and had secured the favour of Lord Charles by his services in teaching his sons to row. He certainly looked more like a boat-builder, or the captain of a barge, than the keeper of the vestibule to the Reporters' Gallery. He was permitted to purvey refreshments of a modest kind to the reporters. He always had a bottle of whisky on tap, a loaf or two of stale bread, and a most nauseous-looking ham. I never, during my career in the Gallery, tasted that ham. The tradition was that every night, when Mr. Wright, at the close ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.


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