purveyance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pur=vey=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

purveyance, n. [Cf. F. pourvoyance.].

•  The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ill purveyance of his page."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is provided; provisions; food.  [1913 Webster]
•  A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.  Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

purveyance, n.
1 the act of purveying.
2 Brit. hist. the right of the sovereign to provisions etc. at a fixed price.

Etymology

ME f. OF porveance f. L providentia PROVIDENCE

ROGET THESAURUS

purveyance

Provision

N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.