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verb

Seek v. t. (past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking)

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."

2.

To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. "Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign."

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." "Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains."

Seek v. i. (past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking) To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery. "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read."

To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. "Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek." (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."

To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. (Obs.) "To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest."

adjective

Seek adj. Sick. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Seek'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seek" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact convinces me that they are the very men we seek; for they said they meant to have some game with you, and what more amusing than to give you a long, ...

— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne

... lost,—and simply from the want of effective champions; that this great opportunity for the institution which I loved better than my life had passed from us during my lifetime, at least; and then it was that I determined to break from my surroundings for a time, and to seek new scenes which might do something to change the ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

... their progress by a succession of gales which blew on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of October. These gales assisted Sir Edward Codrington in compelling the whole of the dispersed fleet of the Patrona Bey to seek refuge ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various

... beyond it, it is something to escape condolence. We follow her fortunes no farther. It is needless to give all the details of the hospital service which occupied her till the conclusion of the war set her free; and we will not seek to penetrate into the retreat in the Far West where she is dwelling still. The gray manor-house guards its secrets well, though it has witnessed in its time sorrows and sins that might have wrung a voice from granite. Conscious of many ...

— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence

... seek is, that the people of the upper classes should have their children taught the language which explains our names of persons or places, our older history, and our music, and which is spoken in the majority of our counties, rather ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

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