The Collaborative International Dictionary
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".
They had been thirteen or so, not yet declared men, and some trouble at home had made them talk of running away, of riding into the Dry towns together to seek employment as hired mercenaries.
Leesil picked up a bucket and went to seek a well or rain barrel for water.
Even as he had used the creature from the garden for a chance to seek out what might be of danger, so now he was being used in the same way.
There is news from the port that there has been talk of others coming from the far starways to seek the arts we have long cultivated.
I told you I was ready to seek a bride before I left Devonbrooke Hall.