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  1. 1. v. t. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To procure; to get. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. i. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. i. To pander; -- with to. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. supply with provisions Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 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. To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot. 1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton. 2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke. Source: webster
  7. 7. v:100 v supply with provisions Source: ecdict

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