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1.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   Purvey (?), 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.
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       Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey
       Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
               -- Spenser.
   
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   2. To procure; to get.
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       I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
               -- Sir W. Scot.
   
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2.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   Purvey, v. i.
   1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
               Chaucer. Milton.
   
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   2. To pander; -- with to. “ Their turpitude purveys to their malice.” [R.]
               Burke.
   
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