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, unprepared.
"Unpracticed, unprepared, 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.
Seek , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Seeking.]
[OE. seken,
AS. sēcan, sēcean; akin to OS.
sōkian, LG. söken, D. zoeken, OHG.
suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. sækja, Sw. söka, Dan. söge, Goth. sōkjan, 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 asked 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 beseech.
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.
Seek (?), a. Sick. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hear it pronounced