purvey Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb supply with provisions
    provision.

WordNet

Pur*vey" transitive verb
Etymology
OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Purveyed ; present participle & verbal noun Purveying
Definitions
  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" intransitive verb
Definitions
  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 1913