purveyed
purveyed is the simple past and past participle of purvey.
Meaning of purvey
Verb
purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)
- To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- 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 kynge1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
- To furnish or provide.
- Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15
- To procure; to get.
- I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.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....
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