Category:Seek

Seek, a.

Defn: sick. [obs.] Chaucer.

Seek Seek, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] Etym: [oe, seken, as. s, s; akin to os. s, lg. söken, d. zoeken, ohg. Suohhan, g. suchen, icel. s, sw. söka, dan. söge, goth. s, 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 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 bessech. 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 Seek, v. i.

Defn: 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.