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 for".
It is necessary, therefore, to seek for the cause of this phenomenon elsewhere.
As it was, Packwood had been too long in the Navy avy to seek for unnecessary explanations to anything.
It was that awareness that now drove him to celebrate his joy in public, to seek for companions in liberation&mdash.
Therefore it were waste of time to seek for him in towns and beaten ways.