Pur‐vey″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Purveyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Purveying.] [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.] 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.