Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
xxxiv. 16.
{To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated.
``Unpracticed, unpreparated, 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.]
To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
--Chaucer.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he
said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii.
15,16.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke
xi. 16.
3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as,
to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
--Pope.