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Definition of Purveying
1. purvey [v] - See also: purvey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purveying
Literary usage of Purveying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"... IN THE FATNESS OF THE COUNTRY SOLDIERLY purveying AND CAMP COOKERY SUSCEPTIBLE
TEAMSTERS AND THEIR TENDENCY TO FLIGHTINESS MAKING A SOLDIER'S BED. ..."
2. Memorial of Edward B. Dalton, M. D. by John Call Dalton (1872)
"Quartermaster, together with the purveying Department and most of the hospital
property, started down the Pamunkey, en route for Jamestown Island in the ..."
3. A Policy of Free Exchange: Essays by Various Writers on the Economical and by Thomas Mackay (1894)
"It may seem almost an insult to the Executive to propose to confine it to the
humble function of purveying information. And yet we cannot be too often ..."
4. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"2, signed shall perform all the duties of purveying and supervision post, p. 349.
for the mess, as now done by the purveyor, without other ..."
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