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Pronunciation : Pur*vey"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Purveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pur*vey"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.

2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913