PURVEY

purvey. Purvey, [ey as a] v. to buy provision, procure, provide

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Pur‐vey″ (?), 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. 1. 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. 2. 2. To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.