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Definition of Seek out
1. Verb. Look for a specific person or thing.
Definition of Seek out
1. Verb. (transitive) To locate; search for. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seek Out
Literary usage of Seek out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"They need only to extend their clearings, and let in more sunlight, to seek out
the southern slopes of the hills, from which they may look down on the civil ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The vulgar are ever loth to seek out natural causes for any of the calamities of
life, but try to discover occult springs for all common events. ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"seek out your ancient Mother! There at last "^Eneas' race shall reign on every
shore, "And his sons' sons, ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"his imagination teems with the most soothing and elevated figures. ... It appears
to have been no part of his plan to seek out for new ..."
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