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Webster 1913 Edition

Dispurveyance

Disˊpur-vey′ance

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Noun.

Want of provisions; [GREEK]ack of food.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dispurveyance

DISPURVEYANCE

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Noun.

Want of provisions. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

dispurveyance

dispurveyance

English

Noun

dispurveyance ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
  No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue [...].