Chapter Couple-beggar to Court of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
Prescott.

Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
De Quincey.

4. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

A well-worn pathway courted us
To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
Tennyson.

Court
(Court), v. i.

1. To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.