purvey
See also: Purvey
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- puruey (alternative typography, 14th-15th centuries)
Etymology edit
From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Compare provide, a doublet.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈveɪ/, /pəːˈveɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɚˈveɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb edit
purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- 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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive) To furnish or provide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
- Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:
- 2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d:
- Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
- (transitive) To procure; to get.
- 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:
- I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
obsolete: to prepare in advance
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to furnish, provide
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