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To seek to

Seek \Seek\, v. i. 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. ``Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.''
--Milton.

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.

Usage examples of "to seek to".

So long as you were part of the outer world, you had to seek to destroy me.

General de Quesnel accepted the condition, and promised on his honor not to seek to discover the road they took.