See | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

See, n.

noun

[O. Eng. se, sea, see, O. Fr. se, sed, sied, siez, N. Fr. siége, fr. Lat. sedes, a seat, fr. sedere, to sit.] 1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. [Obs.] Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser. 2. Hence, specifically, (a.) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop. (b.) The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c.) The seat, place, or office of the pope or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d.) The pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome. Apostolic see. See APOSTOLIC.

See, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. SAW; p. p. SEEN; p. pr. & vb. n. SEEING.] [A-S. seon, for sehan, O. Sax. & O. H. Ger. sehan, N. H. Ger. sehen, Goth. saihvan, D. zien, L. Ger. seën, O. Fries. & Icel. sia, Sw. se, Dan. see.]

Sense 1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of, by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry.

I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Ex. iii. 3.

Sense 2. To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend.

Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 14.

Who is so gross As can not see this palpable device? Shak.

Sense 3. To regard or look to; to take care of; to attend to, as to the execution or performance of something; to beware.

See that ye fall not out by the way. Gen. xlv. 24.

Give them first one simple idea, and see that they fully comprehend it before you go any further. Locke.

I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care to contradict him. Addison.

Sense 4. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death. 1 Sam. xv. 35.

Sense 5. To fall in with; to meet or associate with; to have intercourse or communication with.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matt. v. 8.

Sense 6. To make acquaintance with, or experience of; to feel; to experience.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Ps. xc. 15.

If a man keep my saying he shall never see death. John viii. 51.

See, v. i.

verbintransitive

Sense 1. To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision.

Sense 2. To have intellectual apprehension; to penetrate; to understand; to discern;—often followed by a preposition, as through or into.

Many sagacious persons will . . . see through all our fine pretensions. Tillotson.

Sense 3. To be attentive; to pay regard; to take note; to give heed;—generally with to.

Let me see, let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation. See is sometimes used imperatively for look.—To see about a thing, to pay attention to it; to consider it.