单词 | seek out |
释义 | > as lemmasto seek out a. To pursue with hostile intention (a person; also, in Biblical phrase, his soul or life); to go to attack, advance against (an army, country); to persecute, harass, afflict. Also to seek out, to seek to death. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > advance to attack seekc825 to seek again(sc1230 pursue?a1425 seek1487 visitc1515 coast1531 to make upon ——1542 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > persecute seekc825 baitc1175 war?c1225 pursuec1300 chase1340 course1466 persecutea1475 suea1500 pickc1550 pursuit1563 prosecute1588 exagitate1602 dragoon1689 harass1788 martyr1851 dragonnade1881 witch-hunt1919 vamp1970 the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue > with hostility or violence seekc825 to seek afterc1175 chasec1330 huntc1385 persecute1477 to gun for1893 bloodhound1935 c825 Vesp. Ps. lxix. 3 Fiond mine ða ðe soecað sawle mine. OE Beowulf 801 Sawle secan. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 894 Ond hi mon eac mid oþrum floccum sohte. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15836 Oswi iherden suggen þat Penda hine sohte..& fusde toȝæines Pendan. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11361 Þe king hom sende word aȝen..þat he wolde hom seche out as is pur fon. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 3459 Þat neuere onleode ne sohte his riche [c1275 Calig. þis lond ne iseoðten]. ac þis lond was in paise. a1352 L. Minot Poems vii. 65 Inglis men with site þam soght. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13307 To man þai wroght neuer vn-pes, þof man þam soght wit gret males. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2020 I sall þe seke [Dubl. MS. seche] with a sowme of seggis enarmed. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 102 Thai with so felloun will thaim socht, That thai slew thame euirilkane. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 441 ‘Lordis,’ he said, ‘thus is King Eduuard set In-contrar rycht to sek ws in our land’. 1561 Underhill in Narr. Reformation (1859) 169 Methynkes you do moore then the parte off a jentyllemane thus to seke hym. 1583 E. Grindal in J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal (1710) 281 Tending to the Defence of so notable and sincere a Church, dangerously sought and distressed by many mighty Enemies. 1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 34 Elias being sought to death by Achab and Iesabell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 166–7 Of vs must Pompey presently be sought, Or else he seekes out vs. View more context for this quotation to seek out ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (intransitive)] stop1744 scout1786 to watch out1786 field1798 to look out1836 to fag out1839 to seek out1840 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports 135 The whole party, who are seeking out..change their positions. < as lemmas |
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