Seek

Definition of Seek

a.

1.

v. t.

1.

To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

[imp. & p. p. Sought ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.]

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 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.

v. i.

1.

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.

To seek after
to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. - Milton.

To seek for
to endeavor to find.

To seek to
to apply to; to resort to; to court.

To seek upon
to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. - 1 Kings x. 24.

To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest.

- Chaucer.

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