SEEK Copy link • SEEKTransitively, To search for, quaerere. To desire and pursue, petere: appetere: expetere: sequi: persequi: sectari: consectari: captare: aucupare: studere or servire alicui rei. To seek a livelihood, victum quaeritare (Plaut.): to seek one’s own interests, rebus et commodis suis servire; omnia ad utilitatem suam revocare (Cic.). To ask in order to receive, petere. To endeavor, studere (with an infinitive, or, more rarely, ut); operam dare, ut; capere (with an infinitive, to seek to; ☞ but quaerere with an infinitive or ut is not found in the best prose). To seek one’s life; i. e., to compass one’s death, insidias vitae moliri. Intransitively, To make search, quaerere: indagare: vestigare: investigare. To endeavor to do or effect, conari: moliri: machinari.