Synonyms for purvey

Grammar : Verb

Spell : per-vey

Phonetic Transcription : pərˈveɪ

Définition of purvey

Origin : late 13c., from Anglo-French porveire, purveire and directly from Old French porveoir "to provide, prepare, arrange" (Modern French pourvoir), from Latin providere "make ready" (see provide, which now usually replaces it). Related: Purveyed; purveying.

verb furnish

Example sentences :

Garland, will you purvey another psychic and conduct the pursuit?
Extract from : « The Shadow World » by Hamlin Garland

From Rousseau's "Confessions," we have not room to purvey further.
Extract from : « Classic French Course in English » by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Then the king let purvey for a great feast, and let cry a great jousts.
Extract from : « Children's Literature » by Charles Madison Curry

In the vile companions who purvey to his baser appetites he finds no charm.
Extract from : « Revolution and Other Essays » by Jack London

Now, why should not the Commissariat purvey the Hospital with food?
Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook

This he could not purvey, nor was his business management a success.
Extract from : « The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV » by Various

The cellaress had to purvey 22 “gud oxen” by the year for the convent.
Extract from : « Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 » by Eileen Edna Power

The next matter was to purvey me three horses of the fleetest.
Extract from : « A Monk of Fife » by Andrew Lang

Henry VI seems to have given 200 for to purvey them books to the pleasure of God.
Extract from : « Old English Libraries » by Ernest Savage

She was so rich in goods, that what the wives of thirty kings could not purvey, that Kriemhild did.
Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown

Antonyms for purvey

take

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