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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- puruey (alternative typography, 14th-15th centuries)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Compare provide, a doublet.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- 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
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- (transitive) To furnish or provide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto III, stanza 15:
- Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:
- 2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d:
- Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
- (transitive) To procure; to get.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:
- I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
obsolete: to prepare in advance
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to furnish, provide
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