Purvey /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Purveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying

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.

2. To procure; to get.

   I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.

1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
2. To pander; -- with to. [R.]