Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to purvey
Participle: purveyed
Gerund: purveying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | purvey |
| you | purvey |
| he;she;it | purveys |
| we | purvey |
| you | purvey |
| they | purvey |
Perfect
| I | have purveyed |
| you | have purveyed |
| he;she;it | has purveyed |
| we | have purveyed |
| you | have purveyed |
| they | have purveyed |
Past
| I | purveyed |
| you | purveyed |
| he;she;it | purveyed |
| we | purveyed |
| you | purveyed |
| they | purveyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had purveyed |
| you | had purveyed |
| he;she;it | had purveyed |
| we | had purveyed |
| you | had purveyed |
| they | had purveyed |
Future
| I | will purvey |
| you | will purvey |
| he;she;it | will purvey |
| we | will purvey |
| you | will purvey |
| they | will purvey |
Future Perfect
| I | will have purveyed |
| you | will have purveyed |
| he;she;it | will have purveyed |
| we | will have purveyed |
| you | will have purveyed |
| they | will have purveyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | purvey |
| you | purvey |
| he;she;it | purvey |
| we | purvey |
| you | purvey |
| they | purvey |
Perfect
| I | have purveyed |
| you | have purveyed |
| he;she;it | have purveyed |
| we | have purveyed |
| you | have purveyed |
| they | have purveyed |
Imperfect
| I | purveyed |
| you | purveyed |
| he;she;it | purveyed |
| we | purveyed |
| you | purveyed |
| they | purveyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had purveyed |
| you | had purveyed |
| he;she;it | had purveyed |
| we | had purveyed |
| you | had purveyed |
| they | had purveyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would purvey |
| you | would purvey |
| he;she;it | would purvey |
| we | would purvey |
| you | would purvey |
| they | would purvey |
Perfect
| I | would have purveyed |
| you | would have purveyed |
| he;she;it | would have purveyed |
| we | would have purveyed |
| you | would have purveyed |
| they | would have purveyed |
Imperative
| you | purvey |
| we | Let's purvey |
| you | purvey |
Verbs conjugated like 'purvey'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'purvey'
survey,
curve,
curvet,
lurve,
parley,
perve,
prey,
pulley,
pure,
puree,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- provide
- furnish, supply, accommodate, stock, store, outfit, equip, gear
Antonyms
- provide
- deprive, refuse, deny, remove
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1290, from O.Fr.
porveoir "to provide," from L.
providere (see
provide, which now usually replaces it). Agent noun
purveyor (c.1300) is from O.Fr.
porveour (13c.), from
porveoir.
2. From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman purveer, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to provide”). Doublet of provide; compare prudent. See: Anglo-Norman '
purveer'.
Verbs referencing "purvey"
French
pourvoir.
Sample Sentences
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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 [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:]
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Giue no ods to your foes, but do puruay / Your selfe of sword before that bloudy day: [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:]
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Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce. [2005, Lesley Brown, trans. Plato, Sophist, 223d]
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I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]