provantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

provant (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) provisions; food
   • 1653, John Bulwer, “Scene XVIII. Strange Inventions of Certain Nations in Ordering Their Armes, Hands and Nailes.”, in Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d; or, The Artificial Changling […], 2nd edition, London: […] William Hunt, →OCLC, pages 307–308:

     His manner is to put three or foure ſtones into a ſpoone, and ſo putting them into his mouth together, ſvvallovvs them all dovvn one after another; […] [H]aving the advantage of this ſtrange vvay of alimony, he ſold his allovvance of provant at great rates; […]

   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     When I want prouant w: Humfrie
     I sup, & when benighted,
     I repose in Powles w: waking soules,
     Yet neuer am affrighted.

     When I lack food, I go
     without it, and when benighted,
     I repose in St. Paul’s (graveyard) with ghosts,
     Yet am never scared.

   • c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:

     One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.

動詞

provant (third-person singular simple present provants, present participle provanting, simple past and past participle provanted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with provisions; to provide for.
   • 1599, Thomas Nash, Nashes Lenten Stuffe‎:

     ...should not only supply her inhabitants with plentiful purveyance of sustenance, but provant and victual moreover this monstrous army of strangers […]

関連する語

• provand

参照

• “provant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.