different between viands vs provender
viands
English
Noun
viands
- plural of viand
Noun
viands pl (plural only)
- provisions, victuals
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
- FRANCISCO.
- They vanish'd strangely.
- SEBASTIAN.
- No matter, since
- They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.—
- Will't please you taste of what is here?
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3
Translations
Anagrams
- divans
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provender
English
Etymology
From Middle English provendre, from Old French provendre, variant of provende (“allowance, provision”), from Late Latin praebenda (“a payment, in Medieval Latin also an allowance of food and drink, pittance, also a prebend”). Doublet of prebend.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/, /?p??v?nd?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??v?nd?/
Noun
provender (usually uncountable, plural provenders)
- (dated) Food, especially for livestock.
- Synonyms: fodder; see also Thesaurus:food
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 12:
- The farm which supplied to him ungrudging provender had all his vast capacity for work in willing exercise …
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
Translations
Verb
provender (third-person singular simple present provenders, present participle provendering, simple past and past participle provendered)
- (transitive) To feed.
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
- One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule […]
- 1911, International Horseshoers' Monthly Magazine (volume 12, page 35)
Further reading
- provender in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- provender in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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