PURSUE, L. sequor prosequor, or persequor. See Seek.
1. To follow to go or proceed after or in a like direction. The captain pursued the same course as former navigators have taken. A subsequent legislature pursued the course of their predecessors.
2. To take and proceed in, without following another. Captain Cook pursued a new and unexplored course. New circumstances often compel us to pursue new expedients and untried course. What course shall we pursue?
3. To follow with a view to overtake to follow with haste to chase as, to pursue a hare to pursue an enemy.
4. To seek to use measures to obtain as, to pursue a remedy at law.
5. To prosecute to continue. A stream proceeds from a lake and pursues a southerly course to the ocean.
He that pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own death. Proverbs 11
6. To follow as an example to imitate.
The fame of ancient matrons you pursue.
7. To endeavor to attain to to strive to reach or gain.
We happiness pursue we fly from pain.
8. To follow with enmity to persecute.
This verb is frequently followed by after. Genesis 35
PURSUE, To go on to proceed to continue a Gallicism.
I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chimists should not consider--