purvey en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /pəˈveɪ/ (UK)
- /pəːˈveɪ/ (UK)
- /pɚˈveɪ/ (US)
Etymology
From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent.
Meanings
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(intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
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, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
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(transitive) To furnish or provide.
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, →OCLC, stanza 15:Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d
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(transitive) To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| puruey | alternative | lexicographic | |
| purveyed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| purveyed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| purveying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| purveys | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unpurveyed · purveyable · purveyance · dispurvey
Relateds
Translations (16)
de besorgen (to furnish, provide) · es proveer (to furnish, provide) · cs poskytovat (to furnish, provide) · es preveer (obsolete: to prepare in advance) · pl przygotować (obsolete: to prepare in advance) · mk сна́бди (to furnish, provide) · ru снабжать (to furnish, provide) · de (vor)bereiten (obsolete: to prepare in advance) · bg снабдявам (to furnish, provide) · cs dodávat (to furnish, provide) · bg доставям (to furnish, provide) · pl przygotowywać (obsolete: to prepare in advance) · fr pourvoir (to furnish, provide) · mk на́бави (to furnish, provide) · pl zaopatrzyć (to furnish, provide) · pl zaopatrywać (to furnish, provide)