 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purvey
verb: supply with provisions [syn: {provision}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
--Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; -- with to. '' Their turpitude purveys to their
malice.'' [R.] --Burke.
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