seekern.

Brit.

/ˈsiːkə/, U.S.

/ˈsikər/

Forms: Middle English secher, sekere, Middle English–1500s seker, 1500s seaker, Scottish seiker, 1500s– seeker.

Etymology: < seek v. + -er suffix¹.

a. One who seeks, in various senses of the verb; a searcher, an explorer, one who endeavours to find something hidden or lost. Const. as the verb. Also in seeker after truth. Often used as the second element in objective combinations, such as office-seeker n. at office n. Compounds 2a, pleasure-seeker n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > searcher or seeker

seekerc1330

hunterc1374

searchera1382

explorator1583

questa1616

questanta1616

ferret1629

quester1629

perquisitor1656

questor1887

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > one who carries out

delverc888

trier1547

scrutinist1669

brain-picker1810

seeker after truth1840

burrower1854

researcher1883

researchist1901

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1196 (Kölbing) On a day, as ich ȝou telle, Þo ich þre sechers snelle Þat were ysent fram þe king.

1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A Seker, scrutator.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Knoweyng of trouth in causes of thynges, was more hardyer in the first sechers..& lyghter in vs that han folowed after.

c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) v. ix. sig. Miij Neyther slaunder, nor flatter, nor be no seker out of other mennes matters.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 136 He trett mekle the seikeris of wylde beistes.

a1686 D. Clarkson Serm. (1696) 150 He rewards all seekers.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxliv. 75 'Tis odd, not one of all these seekers thought..Of looking in the bed as well as under.

1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 273 Leonardo was mentally a seeker after truth—a scientist; Coreggio was an assertor of truth—an artist.

1846 J. C. Calhoun Speech 14 May in Papers (1996) XXIII. 110 As soon as the Government becomes the mere creature of seekers of office, your free institutions are nearly at an end.

1868 F. W. Farrar (title) Seekers after God.

1881 Lady D. Hardy Through Cities & Prairie Lands 131 I fancy they are searching for the bride... But nobody attempts to put the clue in the hands of the seekers.

a1968 A. M. Farrer Interpr. & Belief (1976) 138 Madame Blavatsky, than whom few women have been more remarkable for the power of making solid objects fade into thin air among the mountains of India, and crystallize back to physical solidity in the middle of English drawing-room cushions, thence to be hacked out with scissors by delighted seekers after truth.

b. Church History. (With capital S.) As the designation assumed by a class of sectaries in the 16–17th centuries: see quot. 1645.The date and authorship of the first quotation seem to be highly questionable. The passage quoted from Pagitt 1645 appears to contain the earliest known example of the use of the word as the designation of a sect, though the opinion there described was held by the three brothers Legate (c1600), whose followers were called Legatine-Arians. (See C. Burrage, The Early English Dissenters, 1912, I. 214–6, 259–61, and Apparently A.)

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person

sectator?1541

sectary1558

sectare1563

sectuary1592

disjunctive1596

separator1607

swermer1607

swermerian1607

separatist1608

sectist1612

separate1612

opinionist1613

separistc1616

seeker1617

sectarist1618

sectarian1827

come-outer1840

denominationalist1870

disjunctionist1872

1617 J. Morton in R. Barclay Inner Life Relig. Soc. Commw. (1876) 412 Oh, ye Seekers, I would ye sought aright, and not beyond the Scriptures, calling it carnal.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) 141 Many..go under the name of Expecters and Seekers. & doe deny that there is any true Church, or any true Minister, or any Ordinances: some of them affirme the Church to be in the wildernesse, and they are seeking for it there: others say that it is in the smoke of the Temple, & that they are groping for it there.

1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 1 I Saw a Vision yesternight Enough to tempt a Seekers sight: I wisht my self a Shaker there, And her quick pulse my trembling sphear.

a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. 10 Many separate societies, and amongst the rest also, such as were called Seekers.

1795 W. Seward Anecd. (ed. 2) I. 318 Sir Henry Vane, so sagacious and resolute as to daunt and intimidate even Cromwell himself, yet so visionary and so feeble-minded as to be a Seeker and Millennist.

1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) iii. 47 From the Papists, who clung to every particle of ancient error, to the Seekers, who wandered about [etc.].

†c. seeker-out: a fielder at Cricket. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder

seeker-out1744

fieldsman1772

fieldman1773

field1816

fielder1824

scout1824

fag1825

watch1836

leather-hunter1944

1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. 18 The Seekers-out change Place.

1748 in Waghorn's Cricket Scores (1899) 41 Smith..being allowed a seeker-out.

d. A seeker after religion. U.S.

ΚΠ

1880 Scribner's Monthly July 423/2 The crash seemed an electric summons to ‘Brudder Brockus's’ flock, and saints and ‘seekers’ came hurrying in.

2. An instrument used in seeking or searching.

a. A kind of slender probe or tracer used in dissections. Cf. searcher n. 8a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > probe or sound

tenta1400

probe?a1425

search?a1425

sequere mea1425

searcher?c1425

searching iron1477

prove?1541

privet1598

proof1611

style1631

seeker1658

searching instrument1663

stylet1697

stiletto1699

breast-probe1739

sound1797

sounder1875

tracer1882

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. vi. 22 The small iron [surgical] instruments, which by reason of seeking, are called the seekers or searchers.

1882 B. G. Wilder & S. H. Gage Anat. Technol. Domest. Cat 72 The tracer is apparently similar to the ‘seeker’ of the English anatomists... This instrument was introduced into the laboratory of Cornell University [etc.].

1888 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (ed. 2) 281 Insert a seeker into it [the pedal gland of the common snail]—it can be readily introduced for a distance of more than an inch.

b. Part of an astronomical telescope; cf. searcher n. 12, finder n. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > observational instruments > [noun] > telescope > part of

rete1665

field lens1817

hour-circle1837

seeker1892

1892 Athenæum 9 Apr. 473/2 Prof. Lamp at Kiel found it easily visible to the naked eye.., with a tail which in the seeker appeared about 2° in length.

Derivatives

(In sense 1b.)

ˈseekerism n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person > state of being

seekerness1657

seekerism1884

1884 Church Q. Rev. XIX. 57 It [Independency] was continually losing its younger adherents by the ceaseless drift to Anabaptism, to Seekerism, to Quakerism [etc.].

† ˈseekerness n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person > state of being

seekerness1657

seekerism1884

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee i. 58 Is it to shew your unsetled and scrupulous seeker-nesse?

Draft additions 1993

Military. (A device in) a missile which locates its target by detecting emissions of heat, light, radio waves, etc. Cf. heat-seeker n. at heat n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] > types of

loon1947

seeker1949

Honest John1952

Nike1952

heat-seeker1956

anti-ballistic missile1957

Polaris1957

Pershing1958

SAM1958

cruise missile1959

sea-cat1959

minuteman1961

ABM1963

lance1964

Exocet1970

trident1972

MX missile1973

stinger1975

cruise1976

tomahawk1976

silo buster1977

Euromissile1979

Brilliant Pebbles1988

1949 Gloss. Guided Missile Terms (U.S. Dept. Defense Res. & Devel. Board) (rev. ed.) 93 Seeker, target, a homing guidance device.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 461/2 Seeker,..esp. a missile that finds its target by means of the light, heat, or the like emitted by the target.

1959 Space/Aeronautics Aug. 131/1 The seeker determines the target-missile relationship, solves the equations of relative motion, and generates the steering commands for the autopilot. Among the many types of seekers, infrared units have proved simplest and most accurate.

1977 Aviation Week 25 July 16/3 A missile with a monopulse seeker with tail controls on an AIM-7E-size airframe.

1984 Aviation Week 19 Mar. 79/2 The seeker would permit detection of tanks through trees and reduce the effects from camouflage.

1987 Internat. Combat Arms Sept. 51/1 Marconi Defense Systems claims that the advanced seeker on the Sea Eagle can respond to current ECM efforts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seeker
释义	seekern. Brit. /ˈsiːkə/, U.S. /ˈsikər/ Forms: Middle English secher, sekere, Middle English–1500s seker, 1500s seaker, Scottish seiker, 1500s– seeker. Etymology: < seek v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. One who seeks, in various senses of the verb; a searcher, an explorer, one who endeavours to find something hidden or lost. Const. as the verb. Also in seeker after truth. Often used as the second element in objective combinations, such as office-seeker n. at office n. Compounds 2a, pleasure-seeker n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > searcher or seeker seekerc1330 hunterc1374 searchera1382 explorator1583 questa1616 questanta1616 ferret1629 quester1629 perquisitor1656 questor1887 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > one who carries out delverc888 trier1547 scrutinist1669 brain-picker1810 seeker after truth1840 burrower1854 researcher1883 researchist1901 c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1196 (Kölbing) On a day, as ich ȝou telle, Þo ich þre sechers snelle Þat were ysent fram þe king. 1483 Cath. Angl. 328/1 A Seker, scrutator. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Knoweyng of trouth in causes of thynges, was more hardyer in the first sechers..& lyghter in vs that han folowed after. c1555 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) v. ix. sig. Miij Neyther slaunder, nor flatter, nor be no seker out of other mennes matters. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 136 He trett mekle the seikeris of wylde beistes. a1686 D. Clarkson Serm. (1696) 150 He rewards all seekers. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxliv. 75 'Tis odd, not one of all these seekers thought..Of looking in the bed as well as under. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 273 Leonardo was mentally a seeker after truth—a scientist; Coreggio was an assertor of truth—an artist. 1846 J. C. Calhoun Speech 14 May in Papers (1996) XXIII. 110 As soon as the Government becomes the mere creature of seekers of office, your free institutions are nearly at an end. 1868 F. W. Farrar (title) Seekers after God. 1881 Lady D. Hardy Through Cities & Prairie Lands 131 I fancy they are searching for the bride... But nobody attempts to put the clue in the hands of the seekers. a1968 A. M. Farrer Interpr. & Belief (1976) 138 Madame Blavatsky, than whom few women have been more remarkable for the power of making solid objects fade into thin air among the mountains of India, and crystallize back to physical solidity in the middle of English drawing-room cushions, thence to be hacked out with scissors by delighted seekers after truth. b. Church History. (With capital S.) As the designation assumed by a class of sectaries in the 16–17th centuries: see quot. 1645.The date and authorship of the first quotation seem to be highly questionable. The passage quoted from Pagitt 1645 appears to contain the earliest known example of the use of the word as the designation of a sect, though the opinion there described was held by the three brothers Legate (c1600), whose followers were called Legatine-Arians. (See C. Burrage, The Early English Dissenters, 1912, I. 214–6, 259–61, and Apparently A.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person sectator?1541 sectary1558 sectare1563 sectuary1592 disjunctive1596 separator1607 swermer1607 swermerian1607 separatist1608 sectist1612 separate1612 opinionist1613 separistc1616 seeker1617 sectarist1618 sectarian1827 come-outer1840 denominationalist1870 disjunctionist1872 1617 J. Morton in R. Barclay Inner Life Relig. Soc. Commw. (1876) 412 Oh, ye Seekers, I would ye sought aright, and not beyond the Scriptures, calling it carnal. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) 141 Many..go under the name of Expecters and Seekers. & doe deny that there is any true Church, or any true Minister, or any Ordinances: some of them affirme the Church to be in the wildernesse, and they are seeking for it there: others say that it is in the smoke of the Temple, & that they are groping for it there. 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 1 I Saw a Vision yesternight Enough to tempt a Seekers sight: I wisht my self a Shaker there, And her quick pulse my trembling sphear. a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. 10 Many separate societies, and amongst the rest also, such as were called Seekers. 1795 W. Seward Anecd. (ed. 2) I. 318 Sir Henry Vane, so sagacious and resolute as to daunt and intimidate even Cromwell himself, yet so visionary and so feeble-minded as to be a Seeker and Millennist. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) iii. 47 From the Papists, who clung to every particle of ancient error, to the Seekers, who wandered about [etc.]. †c. seeker-out: a fielder at Cricket. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder seeker-out1744 fieldsman1772 fieldman1773 field1816 fielder1824 scout1824 fag1825 watch1836 leather-hunter1944 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. 18 The Seekers-out change Place. 1748 in Waghorn's Cricket Scores (1899) 41 Smith..being allowed a seeker-out. d. A seeker after religion. U.S. ΚΠ 1880 Scribner's Monthly July 423/2 The crash seemed an electric summons to ‘Brudder Brockus's’ flock, and saints and ‘seekers’ came hurrying in. 2. An instrument used in seeking or searching. a. A kind of slender probe or tracer used in dissections. Cf. searcher n. 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > probe or sound tenta1400 probe?a1425 search?a1425 sequere mea1425 searcher?c1425 searching iron1477 prove?1541 privet1598 proof1611 style1631 seeker1658 searching instrument1663 stylet1697 stiletto1699 breast-probe1739 sound1797 sounder1875 tracer1882 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. vi. 22 The small iron [surgical] instruments, which by reason of seeking, are called the seekers or searchers. 1882 B. G. Wilder & S. H. Gage Anat. Technol. Domest. Cat 72 The tracer is apparently similar to the ‘seeker’ of the English anatomists... This instrument was introduced into the laboratory of Cornell University [etc.]. 1888 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (ed. 2) 281 Insert a seeker into it [the pedal gland of the common snail]—it can be readily introduced for a distance of more than an inch. b. Part of an astronomical telescope; cf. searcher n. 12, finder n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > observational instruments > [noun] > telescope > part of rete1665 field lens1817 hour-circle1837 seeker1892 1892 Athenæum 9 Apr. 473/2 Prof. Lamp at Kiel found it easily visible to the naked eye.., with a tail which in the seeker appeared about 2° in length. Derivatives (In sense 1b.) ˈseekerism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person > state of being seekerness1657 seekerism1884 1884 Church Q. Rev. XIX. 57 It [Independency] was continually losing its younger adherents by the ceaseless drift to Anabaptism, to Seekerism, to Quakerism [etc.]. † ˈseekerness n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person > state of being seekerness1657 seekerism1884 1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee i. 58 Is it to shew your unsetled and scrupulous seeker-nesse? Draft additions 1993 Military. (A device in) a missile which locates its target by detecting emissions of heat, light, radio waves, etc. Cf. heat-seeker n. at heat n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] > types of loon1947 seeker1949 Honest John1952 Nike1952 heat-seeker1956 anti-ballistic missile1957 Polaris1957 Pershing1958 SAM1958 cruise missile1959 sea-cat1959 minuteman1961 ABM1963 lance1964 Exocet1970 trident1972 MX missile1973 stinger1975 cruise1976 tomahawk1976 silo buster1977 Euromissile1979 Brilliant Pebbles1988 1949 Gloss. Guided Missile Terms (U.S. Dept. Defense Res. & Devel. Board) (rev. ed.) 93 Seeker, target, a homing guidance device. 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 461/2 Seeker,..esp. a missile that finds its target by means of the light, heat, or the like emitted by the target. 1959 Space/Aeronautics Aug. 131/1 The seeker determines the target-missile relationship, solves the equations of relative motion, and generates the steering commands for the autopilot. Among the many types of seekers, infrared units have proved simplest and most accurate. 1977 Aviation Week 25 July 16/3 A missile with a monopulse seeker with tail controls on an AIM-7E-size airframe. 1984 Aviation Week 19 Mar. 79/2 The seeker would permit detection of tanks through trees and reduce the effects from camouflage. 1987 Internat. Combat Arms Sept. 51/1 Marconi Defense Systems claims that the advanced seeker on the Sea Eagle can respond to current ECM efforts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330
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