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S — Sedimentation to Seek (Part 7 of 7)

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.

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. [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.