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pur·vey  (pr-v, pûrv)
tr.v. pur·veyed, pur·vey·ing, pur·veys
1. To supply (food, for example); furnish.
2. To advertise or circulate.
[Middle English purveien, from Anglo-Norman purveier, from Latin prvidre; see provide.]
pur·veyance n.
purvey
Verb
1. to sell or provide (foodstuffs)
2. to provide or make available: the foreign ministry used him to purvey sensitive items of diplomatic news [Old French porveeir to provide]
purveyor n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.purvey - supply with provisions
provision
furnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"


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"Then I decline to interfere," said the Governor, with asperity; "a man who abuses his office by making it serve a private end and purvey a personal advantage is unfit to be free.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
``I tell thee,'' said De Bracy, ``that I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the tribe of Benjamin; which is as much as to say, that in this same equipment I will fall upon that herd of Saxon bullocks, who have this night left the castle, and carry off from them the lovely Rowena.
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But this is my counsel,' said the Archbishop, 'that we let purvey ten knights, men of good fame, and they to keep the sword.
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