Seek
Seek , adjective
Sick. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Seek , transitive verb
[Old English seken, Anglo-Saxon sēcan, sēcean; akin to Old Saxon sōkian, LG. soken, Dutch zoeken, Old High German suohhan, German suchen, Icelandic saekja, Swedish soka, Danish soge, Gothic sōkjan, and English sake. Compare 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.
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 , intransitive verb
To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
Collocations (5)
To seek , needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. [Obsolete] Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.
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. [Obsolete] All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.
To seek upon , to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obsolete]