To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser.
To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.
To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.
To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.
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