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purvey
[ per-vey ]
verb (used with object)
- to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
purvey
verb
- to sell or provide (commodities, esp foodstuffs) on a large scale
- to publish or make available (lies, scandal, etc)
noun
- the food and drink laid on at a wedding reception, etc
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of purvey1
C13: from Old French porveeir, from Latin prōvidēre to provide
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Example Sentences
So this feast was ended, and the Constable, by the advice of Anglides, let purvey that Alisander was well horsed and harnessed.
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They used to send them out in pairs, sometimes to one district, and sometimes to another, to purvey food for them.
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The wretches who gained the name of Resurrection men despoiled graveyards to purvey subjects for the dissecting knife.
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Purvey himself contributes to this end by a definite statement of certain changes which may be allowed the English writer.
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Purvey says, "Men might expound much openlier and shortlier the Bible than the old doctors have expounded it in Latin."
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