2 entries 1 source
Purvey
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.