purvey

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  1. transitive verb To supply (food, for example); furnish.
  2. transitive verb To advertise or circulate.

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  • Not only are newspapers dying, the type of "news" they purvey - uninterpreted, blandly regurgitated, pre-spun information supplied and shaped by a stakeholder with the intent of policy manipulation - has lost its relevance as well. —  HorsesAss.Org
  • This for yourselves ye may yourselves purvey: —  Orlando Furioso
  • He was recognized as a capable man by those who purvey in letters to the entertainment of the world. —  That Fortune
  • So there it ends -- put up your pieces, or rather, give me one wherewith to purvey a new bridle for —  The Lances of Lynwood
  • In the vile companions who purvey to his baser appetites he finds no charm. —  Revolution, and Other Essays
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  1. Middle English purveien, from Anglo-Norman purveier, from Latin prōvidēre; see provide.

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  1. Early modern English also pourvey; from Middle English purveyen, purvayen, purveien, porveyen, from Old French porveier, purveier, porveer, porveoir, porvoir, pourvoir, French pourvoir = Spanish proveer = Portuguese prover = Italian provedere, from Latin providere, provide: see provide, of which purvey is a doublet.
 

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