purvey
see also: Purvey
Pronunciation Verb
Purvey
Proper noun
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see also: Purvey
Pronunciation Verb
purvey (purveys, present participle purveying; past and past participle purveyed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:6.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext 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, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:6.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter j], in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- (transitive) To furnish or provide.
- Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey / Yourself of sword before that bloody 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. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗:
- German: (vor)bereiten
- Spanish: preveer
Purvey
Proper noun
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