purvey
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- Scrabble points
- 14
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- 16
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Definition of purvey
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive, obsolete)To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
“A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge”
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verb
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(intransitive, obsolete)To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
“A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge”
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(transitive)To furnish or provide.
“Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:”
“Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.”
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(transitive)To procure; to get.
“I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent.
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