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Seek v. t. (past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking)

1.

To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. "The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren."

2.

To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. "Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign."

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." "Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains."

Seek v. i. (past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking) To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery. "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read."

To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. "Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek." (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."

To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. (Obs.) "To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest."

Sought v. Imp. & p. p. of Seek.

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"Sought" Quotes from Famous Books

... such sequences as were sought by believers in the traditional form of causation have not so far been found in nature. Everything in nature is apparently in a state of continuous change,* so that what we call one "event" turns out to be really ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

... people, but they are altogether unlike as to both their extent and the character of the means to be employed. The first was a temporary expedient, intended to restrain action until the question at issue could be submitted to a convention of the States. It was a remedy which its supporters sought to apply within the Union; a means to avoid the last resort—separation. If the application for a convention should fail, or if the State making it should suffer an adverse decision, the advocates of that remedy have not revealed what they proposed as the next step—supposing ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... of Saint Patrick, being oppressed with illness, longed much for honey, by the taste whereof she trusted that her health might be restored. It was sought by all who stood round her, but obtained not; and when she was told thereof, she longed so much the more earnestly for that which she could not have, and complained that she was remembered and assisted of ...

— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various

... The laurels won in the first act of this exciting drama, were all withered in the second. Both parties claimed a victory. It belonged to neither. The British were beaten from the field at the point of the bayonet, sought shelter in a fortress, and repulsed their assailants from that fortress. It is to the shame and discredit of the Americans that they were repulsed. The victory ...

— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin

... of the race. The objects of the several appetites are Meat and Drink, Warmth or Coolness, Exercise and Repose, Sleep, Sex. The object of mere appetite is marked by quantity only, not by quality. That is to say, the thing is sought for in the vague, in a certain amount sufficient to supply the want, but not this or that variety of the thing. The cry of a hungry man is, "Give me to eat," if very hungry, "Give me much:" but so far as he is under the ...

— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.

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