victual
noun
- Now Chiefly Dial. food or other provisions
- Informal, Dialectal articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
transitive verb victualed or victualled, victualing or victualling
to supply with victuals
intransitive verb
- Archaic to eat or feed
- to lay in a supply of food
See victual in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(vĭtˈl)
noun- Food fit for human consumption.
- victuals Food supplies; provisions.
verb vict·ualed or
vict·ualled,
vict·ual·ing or
vict·ual·ling,
vict·uals verb, transitive To provide with food.
verb, intransitive- To lay in food supplies.
- To eat.
Usage Note: The modern pronunciation of
victual, (vĭtˈl), represents an Anglicized pronunciation of the Old French form
vitaille, which was borrowed into English in the early 14th century. The modern English spelling reflects the fact that in both French and English the word was sometimes spelled with a
c, and later also with a
u, under the influence of its Late Latin ancestor
victuālia, meaning “provisions.” The word is now occasionally spelled
vittle rather than
victual, but in either case the pronunciation is (vĭtˈl).
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