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English Dictionary: purvey by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
purvey
v
  1. supply with provisions
    Synonym(s): provision, purvey
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. i.
      1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
            --Chaucer. Milton.
  
      2. To pander; -- with to. [bd] Their turpitude purveys to
            their malice.[b8] [R.] --Burke.
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