Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Purvey

Purvey , transitive verb

[Old English purveien, porveien, Old French porveeir, porveoir, French pourvoir, from Latin providere. See Provide, and compare Purview.]

1.
To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. — Spenser
2.
To procure; to get.
I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. — Sir W. Scot

Purvey , intransitive verb

1.
To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. — Chaucer. Milton
2.
To pander; -- with to. [Rare]
Their turpitude purveys to their malice. — Burke