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asearch
asearch
English
Adverb
asearch (comparative more asearch, superlative most asearch)
- (archaic, poetic, rare) Searching.
- a. 1904, Ira Billman, "The Birthplace of Sublimity", in, 1904, Songs of All Seasons, The Hollenbeck Press, page 181 :
- Assured henceforth, where'er I go
- Asearch tho' loftiest solitude,
- Or in the thundering Vatican,
- There's naught sublime but Man!
- a. 1907, Martha Virginia Burton, "Under Gold Helmets", in, 1907, Sons of the Sun, Bessette & Son, page 91 :
- Great sons were they, when race leapt into moods,
- Cultures and teachers even as in our day,—
- Who come asearch for truth, discover it,
- And so hang new suns 'cross the human way.
- 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost, Patience Worth: a psychic mystery, page 283:
- Swift as light-flash o' storm, swift, swift, / Would I send the wish o' thine asearch.
- a. 1904, Ira Billman, "The Birthplace of Sublimity", in, 1904, Songs of All Seasons, The Hollenbeck Press, page 181 :
Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman assercher, Old French acerchier, from a + cerchier (“to seek”).
Verb
asearch (third-person singular simple present asearches, present participle asearchinge, simple past and past participle asearched)
- To search (into); to examine, investigate.
- 1382, John Wycliffe, Genesis XLIV 11-12:
- And so blyue doynge down into the erthe the sackis, eche opnyde; the which aserchinge, bigynnynge fro the more vnto the leeste, fonde the coppe in the sak of Beniamyn.
- 1382, John Wycliffe, Genesis XLIV 11-12: