单词 | to seek after |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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