Dictionary entry

Pursue (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pur‐sue″, v. i. 1. To go in pursuit; to follow.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Prov. xxviii. 1.

Men hotly pursued after the objects of their ambition. Earle.

2. To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.

I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chemists should not consider. Boyle.

3. (Law) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.