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purveyeth

purveyeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of purvey.

Meaning of purvey

Verb

purvey (third-person singular simple present purveys, present participle purveying, simple past and past participle purveyed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) 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
  2. (transitive) 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
  3. (transitive) 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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Origin of purveyeth

purvey + -eth

Questions about purveyeth

What is purveyeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Purveyeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of purvey.

Words near purveyeth in the dictionary

  1. purveyancer
  2. purveyancers
  3. purveyances
  4. purveyancing
  5. purveyed
  6. purveyeth
  7. purveying
  8. purveyor
  9. purveyoress
  10. purveyoresses
  11. purveyors

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