† upseekv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To seek or search out; to search through.
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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 > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a place) > search through (a place)
upseekc1315
scourc1380
pickc1395
scumc1420
skirra1616
spin1972
c1315 Shoreham i. 1581 Þanne aȝte..wyues nauȝt aȝens men Non on-wrestnesse werche,..And nauȝt onwrest opsechen hy.
a1500 Coventry Corpus Christi Plays i. 809 All the chylder of that age dy the[y] mvst nede; Now with all my myght the[y] schall be vpsoght.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12010 Grete palis of prise [þai] put into askys,..And all the Cite vp soght to þe sad walles.
1615–6 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 462 That we should not expect vntill other vpseeke vs, but that we should seeke and serue them.
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