Purveyed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purvey \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.


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              Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey
              Yourself of sword before that bloody day. --Spenser.
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     2. To procure; to get.
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              I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the
              children of Benjamin.                 --Sir W. Scot.
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