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Webster 1913 Edition
Dispurveyance
Disˊpur-vey′ance
,Noun.
Want of provisions; [GREEK]ack of food.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dispurveyance
DISPURVEYANCE
,Noun.
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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x: