purveyance noun. [pǝ'veɪǝns] ME.
[Old French parvea(u)nce, pur- from Latin providentia PROVIDENCE, or (later) from porveeir: see PURVEY verb, -ANCE.]
I. 1. Foresight; = PROVIDENCE 2. ME-L16.

2. Preparation, prearrangement; direction; = PROVIDENCE 1. ME-E17.

3. In full purveyance of God, divine purveyance. = PROVIDENCE 3. LME-M16.

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purveyance
II.
4. Something which is ordained; (a clause in) an ordinance or statute. ME-M17.

5. Something which is purveyed; a supply, a provision, esp. of food, arms, or other necessities. ME-L16.

6. The requisition and collection of provisions etc. as a right or prerogative; spec. and long only (now Hist.) the right of a monarch to buy necessities for the royal household, by means of and at a price fixed by a purveyor, and to exact the use of horses and vehicles for the royal journeys. ME.
■ W. Blackstone The powers of purveyance have declined, in foreign countries as well as our own.

7. The provision of some necessity, esp. food. LME.
■ J. H. Burton There was busy baking of biscuits and purveyance of provender.

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