purvey UK /pəˈveɪ/US /pɚˈveɪ/ verb3 •To furnish or provide.Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day: — 1590 •To procure; to get.I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. — 1819 •(no longer used) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. formspurveyed · purveying · purveyeth · purveys