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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Purvey

/pẽrv-ā'/ · Pur·vey · IPA /pɚˈveɪ/
01 v. t. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
imp. & p. p. Purveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying
  1. 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. 2.
    To procure; to get.
    “I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.” — Sir W. Scot.
02 v. i. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
  1. 1.
    To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
  2. 2.
    To pander; -- with to.[R.]