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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."

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"Seeking" Quotes from Famous Books

... contrary, It is stated (I, qu. i [*Can. Quidquid invisibilis]): "It is absolutely forbidden to make a charge for what is acquired by the consolation of invisible grace, whether by demanding a price or by seeking any kind of return whatever." Now all these spiritual things are acquired through an invisible grace. Therefore it is not lawful to charge a price or return ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... his way through the crowd and soon found the man he was seeking. The poor fellow had one arm in a sling and had several cuts on his face, and declared himself very much ...

— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... with the sacred Mid[-e] stone indicated within, as also another spot to signify the place occupied by a sick person. The waving lines above and beneath the oblong square are magic lines, and indicate magic or supernatural power. The singer compares the candidate to a sick man who is seeking life by having shot into his ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... opinion of the land. There is the dictum here for a man who adores a woman who is possessed by a husband. If he has long adored her, and known himself to be preferred by her in innocency of heart; if he has solved the problem of being her bosom's lord, without basely seeking to degrade her to being his mistress; the epithets to characterise him in our vernacular will probably be all the less flattering. Politically we are the most self-conscious people upon earth, and socially the frankest animals. The terrorism of our social laws is ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... 12 two German armies were on the move in Poland, seeking to pierce the Russian lines. One of these armies was advancing along the road to Przasnysz with the bank of the River Narew as its objective. This was the main German attack and inaugurated one of the ...

— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell

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