From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seek \Seek\, a.
Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n.
Seeking.] [OE. seken, AS. s[=e]can, s[=e]cean; akin to OS.
s[=o]kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen,
Icel. saekja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s[=o]kjan, 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.
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The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he
said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii.
15, 16.
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2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
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Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke
xi. 16.
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3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as,
to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
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4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
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Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
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Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
--Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seek \Seek\, v. i.
To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
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Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
xxxiv. 16.
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To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared.
"Unpracticed, unprepared, 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.]
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To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest. --Chaucer.
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