to seek for

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to seek for - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Seek \Seek\, v. i.
     To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
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           Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
                                                    xxxiv. 16.
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     To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared.
        "Unpracticed, unprepared, 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.]
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              To seek
              Upon a man and do his soul unrest.    --Chaucer.
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