victual
To provide with a stock of victuals or foodTo provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
» On a day out, walking about, a sandwich is a fine victual.
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3 senses(archaic, reflexive, transitive)To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
(archaic, intransitive)To lay in or procure food supplies.
lay in provisions
(archaic, intransitive)To eat.
Examples
3 sentencesOn a day out, walking about, a sandwich is a fine victual.
Mary ate all her victuals.
And we get tired of living on spoon victuals and the memory of past beef-steaks.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English vitailen (“to provide (someone, a castle, a ship, etc., or oneself) wiFrom Middle English vitailen (“to provide (someone, a castle, a ship, etc., or oneself) with supplies of food, drink, or other needs; (figuratively) to load (a ship with troops and materiel); to fortify, nourish”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vitailer, vitailler, and Old French vitailler, victuailler [and other forms], from vitaile, vitaille, victaille (“food, provisions, victuals”) (see further at etymology 1) + -er (a variant of -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs)).
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Forms
victuals, victualing, victualed, victualed| Base form | victual · to victual |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | victuals |
| Present participle | victualing |
| Past simple | victualed / victualled |
| Past participle | victualed / victualled |
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Word family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle