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語源

From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Compare provide, a doublet.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pəˈveɪ/, /pəːˈveɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɚˈveɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

動詞

purvey (三人称単数 現在形 purveys, 現在分詞 purveying, 過去形および過去分詞形 purveyed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for または to do something); to plan, make provision.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     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

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2. (transitive) To furnish or provide.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto III, stanza 15:

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

   • 2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d:

     Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.

3. (transitive) To procure; to get.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

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

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