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单词 to seek to death
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to seek to death
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.
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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
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