Seek \Seek\, v. i.
To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
xxxiv. 16.
To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated.
``Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.''
--Milton. [Obs]
To seek after, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or
take.
To seek for, to endeavor to find.
To seek to, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.]
``All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.''
1. Kings x. 24.
To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up;
to persecute. [Obs.]
To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
--Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n.
Seeking.]
[OE, seken, AS. s?can, s?cean; akin to OS.
s?kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen,
Icel. s?kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s?kjan, and E.
sake. Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.]
1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to
find.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he
said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii.
15,16.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke
xi. 16.
3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as,
to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
--Pope.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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