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单词 to seek after
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to seek after
15. to seek after. To go in quest of, look for; to try to find, reach, or obtain; †to pursue in order to hurt. Now chiefly in passive: To be desired or in demand; to be courted, to have one's presence desired.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)]
seekc888
aseekc1000
i-secheOE
huntc1175
to seek afterc1175
beseechc1200
fand?c1225
ofseche?c1225
to seek forc1250
atseekc1275
furiec1290
forseeka1300
outseekc1300
upseekc1315
to look after ——c1330
wait1340
laita1350
searchc1350
pursuea1382
ensearchc1384
to feel and findc1384
inseekc1384
looka1398
fraist?a1400
umseeka1400
require?c1400
walec1400
to look up1468
prowla1475
to see for ——c1485
to look for ——a1492
to have in the wind1540
sue1548
vent?1575
seek1616
explore1618
dacker1634
research1650
to see out for1683
quest1752
to see after ——1776
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
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6273 & all forrwerrp þu towarrd himm. To sekenn affterr wræche.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 9 Sech after þing þe ðe beð biheue.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 1/6 Eleyne, þat was is moder, to Ierusalem he sende to sechen after þe holie rode.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) ii. pr. v. 47 Þan is it no nede þat þou seke after þe superfluite of fortune.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 178 I seke after a segge þat I seigh ones.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 48 Bifore eer he eny suche causis fyndeth, and eer he aftir eny suche causis sechith.
1482 Monk of Evesham 53 Yef they..sekyd after the mercye of god and alsoo after the helpe of his holy seyntys.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xiii. (xiv.) 2 To se yf there were eny, that wolde vnderstonde & seke after God.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxix. [lxx.] 2 Let them be shamed & confounded that seke after my soule [and so 1611].
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 378 You see my good wenches how men of merrite are sought after. View more context for this quotation
1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §97 We..do not seeke after those bookes.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 44 I will never beleeve that ill fortune any more than good will seeke after mee so farre as this.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 11. ⁋5 They have been always seek'd after by the Ladies.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 97 The first four of this catalogue only are much sought after for their oil.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. viii. 262 I was aware that he had been greatly sought after as a preacher.
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