pursuit

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pur=suit
• COUNT in NET: 9 in 9 verses (in OT : 8 in 8 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

pursuit, n. [F. poursuite, fr. poursuivre. See Pursue, v. t.].

•  The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.  Clarendon.  [1913 Webster]

  "Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit."  [1913 Webster]
•  A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.  [1913 Webster]
•  Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.  [1913 Webster]
•  Prosecution.  [1913 Webster]

  "That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court."  [1913 Webster]

Curve of pursuit (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pursuit, n.
1 the act or an instance of pursuing.
2 an occupation or activity pursued.

Idiom

in pursuit of pursuing.

Etymology

ME f. OF poursuite (as PUR-, SUIT)

THESAURUS

pursuit

accomplishment, activity, aim, area, art, avocation, bag, business, butt, by-end, by-purpose, calling, career, career building, careerism, chasing, chevy, chivy, craft, cup of tea, destination, dogging, employment, end, end in view, field, final cause, following, forte, game, goal, handicraft, heeling, hobby, hounding, hunt, hunting, interest, job, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, long suit, looking for, main interest, manner, mark, metier, mission, mystery, number, object, object in mind, objective, obtaining, occupation, pastime, pet subject, practice, prey, profession, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, quarry, quest, quintain, racket, reaching, reason for being, search, searching, seeking, sequel, sequence, series, shadowing, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, stalking, strong point, style, tailing, target, technicality, teleology, thing, tracing, tracking, trade, trailing, type, ultimate aim, vocation, walk, walk of life, way, weakness, work

ROGET THESAURUS

pursuit

Pursuit

N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.

Business

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

Approach

N approach, approximation, appropinquation, access, appulse, afflux, affluxion, advent, pursuit, approaching, approximative, affluent, impending, imminent, on the road, Int, come hither!, approach!, here!, come!, come near!, forward!.

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.