Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete spellings of victual.
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Examples
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Wherein notwithstanding this ouersight was committed, for that (taking away with him the vpland, or countrey people that should haue tilled the ground, and might easily haue bene kept in order without any danger, by other good policies) he was driuen afterwards many yeres together, to vitaile the countrey (specially the great townes) out of his owne countrey of Russia, the soile lying there in the meane while wast and vntilled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All this while the gallies and galliasses went and came to land, bringing vitaile and people.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For their chiefe vitaile is horse flesh, which they eate without bread, or any other thing with it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Englishmen, perceiving that thei within could not long continue for faute of vitaile and pouder, kepte not their watche so diligently as thei were accustomed, nor scoured now the countrey environed as thei before had ordained.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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And in the xvj day of March the kyng ordeyned that no man schulde gon ought of the citee of London be water no be londe to regrate ony vitaile.
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Also in this yere was gret plente of vitaile, that a quarter of whete was sold at London for ij _s_; and a fat oxe for vj _s. _ viij_d_; and vj pegons for a peny: but natheles it was ful gret scarste of money.
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Wherein notwithstanding this ouersight was committed, for that (taking away with him the vpland, or countrey people that should haue tilled the ground, and might easily haue bene kept in order without any danger, by other good policies) he was driuen afterwards many yeres together, to vitaile the countrey (specially the great townes) out of his owne countrey of Russia, the soile lying there in the meane while wast and vntilled.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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For their chiefe vitaile is horse flesh, which they eate without bread, or any other thing with it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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All this while the gallies and galliasses went and came to land, bringing vitaile and people.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Whiche negligence the citizens shut in perceiving, sent worde thereof to the French captaines, which, with Pucelle, in the dedde tyme of the nighte, and in a greate rayne and thundere, with all their vitaile and artillery, entered into the citie. "
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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