The Collaborative International Dictionary
To seek upon
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.