To search for; seek.
To ask for as a favor; request.
To ask or claim, as of right and by authority; demand; insist on having; exact.
To ask or order to do something; call on.
To have need or necessity for; render necessary or indispensable; demand; need; want.
=Syn. 2–4. Request, Beg, etc. (see ask), enjoin (upon), prescribe, direct, command.