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purˈveyable, a. rare.
[f. purvey v. + -able.]
†a. Provident, foreseeing, prudent. Obs.
b. Procurable, obtainable.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. ii. 53 (Camb. MS.) How þat nature..flitteth the gouernementz of thinges and by whyche lawes she purueyable [L. provida] kepith the grete world. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. ii. xi. 286 b, And so, the physician abandoned, he tooke hym to meates purveiable. |