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) |