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   Seek (?), a. Sick. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Seek, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] [OE. seken, AS. sēcan, sēcean; akin to OS. sōkian, LG. söken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. saekja, Sw. söka, Dan. söge, Goth. sōkjan, and E. sake.  Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.]
   1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
   
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   The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
   
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   2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
   
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   Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke xi. 16.
   
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   3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, “to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life”.
   
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   4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
   
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   Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. Amos v. 5.
   
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   Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. Pope.
   
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   Seek (?), v. i. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
   
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   Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. Isa. xxxiv. 16.
   
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   To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. “Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.” Milton. [Obs.] -- 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.]
   
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   To seek
   
   Upon a man and do his soul unrest. Chaucer.
   
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