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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. quotations
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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
(transitive) To furnish or provide. quotations examples
Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 15
Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d
(transitive) To procure; to get. quotations examples
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […]