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. — 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. “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.
To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest. Chaucer.