What is to procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot called?
purvey — To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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