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• PURVEYANCE
  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. (more info) 1. The act
• DISPURVEYANCE
  Want of provisions; Spenser.