Crossword clues for purvey
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
--Sir W. Scot.
Purvey \Pur*vey"\, v. i.
To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
--Chaucer. Milton.To pander; -- with to. `` Their turpitude purveys to their malice.'' [R.]
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Anglo-French porveire, purveire and directly from Old French porveoir "to provide, prepare, arrange" (Modern French pourvoir), from Latin providere "make ready" (see provide, which now usually replaces it). Related: Purveyed; purveying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. 2 (context transitive English) To furnish or provide. 3 (context transitive English) To procure; to get.
WordNet
v. supply with provisions [syn: provision]
Usage examples of "purvey".
While the text offers evidence to indict Humbert, it is subtle enough that many readers overlook its critique of the misogyny illustrated in and purveyed by the rest of the text.
Although he had been a resident for several years, Purvey still acted as though he were an uninvited guest who had long outstayed his welcome.
And unlike the crude offers purveyed by younger artists, Perella was giving us because she had nothing else to give the erotic, ecstatic, uplifting, imaginative glory of hope and possibility.
The courtyard was full of the wagons and carts and draft animals of stonemasons and carpenters and plasterers and gilders and such, and the conveyances of farmers and tradesmen purveying provender and necessities to the inhabitants of the palace city, and the mounts and carriages and porter-borne palanquins of other visitors come on other business from near and far.
Then answered Pithias, I beare the office of the Clerke of the market, and therfore if you will have any pittance for your supper speake and I will purvey it for you.
And there on the right, the only commercial establishment permitted to function along the entire length of that exclusive thoroughfare, Crionet Chocolatier purveyed miraculous confections beyond the artistic range of even the best Exalted kitchens.
Today, cars had been banned, and replaced by pickup trucks and minivans and aluminum specialty wagons purveying T-shirts, pennants, mugs, buttons, pins, posters and food .
But that God purveys thing that is to come, For that it is to come, and elles nought?
Most of the stories appearing on the front pages had been picked up from Japanese shortwave broadcasts emanating from military headquarters in Tokyo, and all purveyed the straight Japanese propaganda line.
But when the messenger came to King Rience, then was he wood out of measure, and purveyed him for a great host, as it rehearseth after in the book of Balin le Savage, that followeth next after, how by adventure Balin gat the sword.
But, sir, are ye purveyed, said Merlin, for to-morn the host of Nero, King Rience's brother, will set on you or noon with a great host, and therefore make you ready, for I will depart from you.
Well then will I have ado with him to the utterance, and so he purveyed him and rode against him.
And so it was done, and all manner of purveyance purveyed, that there lacked nothing that might be gotten of tame nor wild for gold or silver.
Then that lady was not a little glad, and sent word that she was purveyed, and that night Bors had good cheer.
Then he purveyed him a twenty men of arms and an hundred archers for to destroy the queen and her knights, for he thought that time was best season to take the queen.