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vivers, n. pl. Chiefly Sc.|ˈvaɪvəz|
Forms: α. 6 veveres, wewers, 7 vievers, viewers. β. 6 viwers, wivers, wiwors, wiuerse, 6–7 viuers, 6, 8–9 vivers (6 vivars). See also vivres.
[ad. OF. (also mod.F.) vivres, pl. of vivre food, sustenance, substantive use of vivre to live.]
Food, provisions, victuals, eatables.
Only Sc. till the 19th century; its later literary currency is probably due to its frequent occurrence in the Waverley Novels.
α1536Queen Margaret in St. Papers Hen. VIII (1836) V. 43 Þa ma be portative be wattyr for carying of þar veveres and uthyres necyssares. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 78 Ane armie..weill furnischit witht all kynd of weweris and munitioun. 1609Skene Reg. Mag., Stat. Rob. I, 20 b, He sall cume..weill furnished with siluer to bye vievers for his sustentation.
β1551Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 114 The greit..derth..of all kynd of victuallis and viveris. 1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 168 The stoir of thair victualles being daylie scand, they directit, as afore, sum horsmen to scour the fields for viuers. 1622in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 108 Viuers are very chepe heere and thay are dere with the enimy. 1725Records of Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903) I. 420 The prices of fyring, fewell, fish, flesh and other vivers are latelie arisen to an exorbitant hight. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 149 Every thing of vivers is dear in Holland but vegetables. 1814Scott Wav. xlii, I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long. 1860Motley Netherl. xiii. (1868) II. 164 He bitterly complained of the unwillingness of the country⁓people to furnish vivers, waggons, and other necessaries. 1887W. Beatty-Kingston Music & Manners II. 18 You shall have your beer, vivers, and tobacco cheap.
fig.1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 87 This is our viuers during the pilgramedg of this transitorie lif. |