Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seek \Seek\, v. i.
   To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.

         Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
                                                  xxxiv. 16.

   {To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated.
      ``Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.''
      --Milton. [Obs]

   {To seek after}, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or
      take.

   {To seek for}, to endeavor to find.

   {To seek to}, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.]
      ``All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.''
      --1. Kings x. 24.

   {To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up;
      to persecute. [Obs.]

            To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
                                                  --Chaucer.