Dictionary entry

Seeker

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Seek″er (?), n. 1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.

A skeptic ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar.