Pur*vey" , v. i. 1. To
purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude
purveys to their malice." [R.]
Burke.
Pur*vey" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purveyed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Purveying.]
[OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L.
providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.] 1. To furnish or
provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or
the like.
Give no odds to your
foes, but do purvey
Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
Spenser. 2. To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a
wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
Sir
W. Scot.
Hear it pronounced