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- noun Archaic form of
purview .
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Examples
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Now what 'the invicible' Mr. Obama is also going to take over the Police system and their work under his purvue and act as a mediator/negotiator – Stupidity at its best!
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Real estate tax arrearages are the purvue of Multnomah County, not the City of Portland.
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Virgo: The narrow area between get the job done and getting exploited is strictly in the purvue of Virgo this week.
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The precepts and purvue of "total-design" encompass all human aspects of use-ability.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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It is taken as an insult for anyone to get involved in matters which they consider to be within their purvue.
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The advent of home-schooling, once the purvue of only a tiny sliver of the population, has boomed in recent years.
Deanie Mills: The Religious Right-Wing Has Already Seceded from the Country 2008
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BTW, your items listed, by and large, are paid by the users based on the use of the resources and are not the purvue of the Federal government.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Mandatory “National Service” Proposals Target the Young: 2007
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Lawrence was very badly decided, in that such things are within the clear Constitutional purvue of the States ... if you're a strict constructionist.
Rudy's running... and talking about abortion. Ann Althouse 2007
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The Tenth Dems do not live in a vaccuum- that's TA's purvue.
Mark Kirk: Shameless Liar Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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It used to be that “environmentalism” was the purvue of affluent, white, well-educated citizens; it appears that is beginning to shift.
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