| 单词 | to seek for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto seek for 16. to seek for. extracted from seekv. a. To look for, try to find or obtain, etc. (An equivalent for the transitive senses 1, 2, 7.) 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 c1250 Owl & N. 1508 Ich not hu mai eni freo-man for hire sechen after þan. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 208 And yit therfore With al his wit he hath don sieke. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 133 For more pasture I will nat stryue Nor seche for my foode no more. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark i. f. xlv All men seke for the. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogation Week iii. 247 b If we be colde, we seke for cloth. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 18 They went therefore seeking heere and there for money. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 161 Our disappointment and their security were neither to be sought for in their valour nor our misconduct. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 182 The group..broke up, seeking in all directions for a means of passage. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 305 The true life should neither seek for pleasures, nor..entirely avoid pains. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > sail towards or head for to seek up14.. to bear up1582 to stand for ——a1594 to seek up for1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 44 The tempest increasing.., we were constrained to seeke vp for the Port. < as lemmas |
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