means To actively look for, pursue, or try to obtain something.

from From Old English sēċan, 'to go in search of, pursue,' rooted in the Proto-Germanic sōkijaną — the same well that gave German suchen and Swedish söka. It traces back further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to track down' or 'investigate,' a cousin of Latin sāgīre ('to perceive keenly') and the source of 'sagacious.' Its old past tense, 'sought,' kept the harder ending that 'seek' itself softened over centuries — and 'beseech' is simply 'seek' with an intensifying prefix bolted on the front.