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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)

  1. (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 [...].