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.
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Pur*vey", v. i. 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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