purvey
See also: Purvey
English
Alternative forms
- puruey (alternative typography, 14th-15th centuries)
Etymology
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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Compare provide, a doublet.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪ
Verb
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, “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
- (transitive) To furnish or provide.
- (transitive) To procure; to get.
- Sir Walter Scott
- I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
- Sir Walter Scott
Related terms
Translations
obsolete: to prepare in advance
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to furnish, provide
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