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asearch en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /əˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin circō Anglo-Norman sercherbor. Middle English serchen English search English asearch From a- + search.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic, rare) Searching.
   • Swift as light-flash o' storm, swift, swift, / Would I send the wish o' thine asearch. 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost with Pearl Lenore and Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: a psychic mystery, page 283:
   • 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. a. 1907, Martha Virginia Burton, "Under Gold Helmets", in, 1907, Sons of the Sun, Bessette & Son, page 91 http://google.com/books?id=yIg0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA91&dq=asearch
   • Assured henceforth, where'er I go Asearch tho' loftiest solitude, Or in the thundering Vatican, There's naught sublime but Man! a. 1904, Ira Billman, "The Birthplace of Sublimity", in, 1904, Songs of All Seasons, The Hollenbeck Press, page 181 http://google.com/books?id=sd00AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=asearch

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