purvey

verb /pəˈveɪ/

1. To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

   intransitive, obsolete

   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 kynge

2. To furnish or provide.

   transitive

   Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day:

3. To procure; to get.

   transitive

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

Where it comes from

From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry purvey (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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