purvey

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/pəˈveɪ/ (UK)
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/pəˈveɪ/ (UK) · /pəːˈveɪ/ (UK) · /pɚˈveɪ/ (US)

Definition of purvey

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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

  1. (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”
  2. (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.”
  3. (transitive)To procure; to get.
    “I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.”

name

  1. 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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