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 after".
Nevertheless on certain days and at the appointed time he ought to receive the Body and Blood of his Redeemer with affectionate reverence, and rather to seek after the praise and honour of God, than his own comfort.
It is vanity then to seek after, and to trust in, the riches that shall perish.
So she teacheth to restrain the senses, to shun vain complacency and ostentation, to hide humbly those things which merit praise and real admiration, and from everything and in all knowledge to seek after useful fruit, and the praise and honour of God.
Kepler's ideal was to seek after knowledge through pure observation.