Pursued

Definition: Pursued

Pursued

Adjective

1. Followed with enmity as if to harm: "running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes".

Noun

1. A person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued".

Date "pursued" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Pursued

Synonym: chased (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	From what I hear she pursued it in all directions. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook) The creature is driven by rage, and is pursued by an investigative reporter (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Carol Baxter; Paul M. Belous) I want to escape, to get away! And I'm pursued by ghosts. (M; writing credit: Egon Jacobson; Fritz Lang) You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high. (Who'll Stop the Rain; writing credit: Judith Rascoe) In New York City's war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad. (Law & Order: Criminal Intent; writing credit: Rene Balcer; Geoffrey Neigher)
Movie/TV Titles	Pursued (1947) The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) Pursued (1934) Woman Pursued (1931) Pursued (1925)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Kantian Aesthetics Pursued (reference) Marcel Pursued by the Hounds (reference) Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (reference) Pursued (The Executioner #290) (reference) Pursued (The Jennie McGrady Mysteries, Book 3) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Pursued (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	And the villain still pursued her. Credit: Library of Congress.		Man, possibly Perseus, and wounded woman pursued by Gorgons. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Akhenaton	As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Plato	No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus	All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Schlegal	Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	After which I was hunted, hounded, pursued, persecuted, slandered, railed at, spit upon, cursed, proscribed.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Identification of risk assessment methods and pharmacologic treatments and their use in conjunction with monitors should be pursued. (references)
		Relatively few population-based investigations have pursued the fundamental question of how many persons become ill after infection with ehrlichiae. (references)
		Correlation of laboratory observations and clinical data must be pursued to define the biological and clinical significance of these cellular and molecular characteristics. (references)
Business		This process is reinforced by the economic development strategies pursued by some gas producing provinces. (references)
		In the past few years, the prevailing marketing strategy in this market has pursued high volume at low prices. (references)
		This is pursued by the public and private sectors, but the different paces at which the two sectors operate causes problems with development. (references)
Children	Norway	During the year, 697 sexual assaults by nonfamily members and 120 assaults by family members were reported, compared to 191 reported sexual assaults on children by nonfamily members and 96 assaults by family members in 2000. Children's rights advocates have expressed concern that authorities have not pursued investigations in some legitimate cases of child abuse. (references)
	Liechtenstein	Persons with Disabilities Although the law does not prohibit expressly discrimination against persons with disabilities, complaints of such discrimination may be pursued in the courts. (references)
Civil Liberties	Thailand	There were reports that the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) had pursued an aggressive campaign against the meeting. (references)
Economic History	Uzbekistan	Another has pursued and won in the courts a claim against customs for an illegal seizure of a shipment, but nearly two years later has still not received payment. (references)
	Tanzania	Tanzania's socialist economic policies pursued between 1967 and 1985 effectively barred or strongly discouraged private sector growth. (references)
	Argentina	Eager for closer ties to industrialized nations, Argentina left the Non-Aligned Movement in the early 1990s and has pursued a relationship with the OECD. (references)
Human Rights	Thailand	If pursued by the family, the case is handled by the same office--in some instances by the same prosecutor--who already has ruled that no criminal action occurred. (references)
	Mali	In June in Bamako, a bus driver fell or jumped to his death from a bridge while being pursued by the police. (references)
	Jordan	After police pursued Shalback for allegedly stealing a car, witnesses claimed that police handcuffed and severely beat him. (references)
Indigenous People	Japan	Under an 1899 law, the Government pursued a policy of forced assimilation, imposing mandatory Japanese-language education and denying the Ainu their right to continue traditional practices. (references)
Minorities	Palau	Credible complaints are made by foreign residents that crimes against non-Palauans are not pursued or prosecuted by authorities with the same vigor as crimes against citizens. (references)
	Mauritania	However, successive governments--both civil and military--have pursued various policies of "Arabization" in the schools and in the workplace. (references)
Political Economy	GHANA	Since 1983 Ghana has pursued an economic reform agenda aimed generally at reducing government involvement in the economy and encouraging private sector development. (references)
	Sudan	Since 1993 the leaders of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya have pursued a peace initiative under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) with mixed results. (references)
	CHINA	For two decades, China has pursued policies designed to achieve rapid growth and higher living standards. (references)
Trade	Pakistan	The GOP has pursued a policy of prescribing target levels of lending to certain sectors of the economy, to ensure that priority sectors receive adequate credit. (references)
	Armenia	The number of private banks has been slowly declining as the Central Bank has pursued a policy of tightening bank capitalization requirements to push the weak banks into closing or into mergers with stronger banks. (references)
	Vietnam	The establishment of these two agencies' programs in Vietnam coupled with the activities of the Trade and Development Agency (TDA), which provides grants for Feasibility Studies and training for projects being pursued by U.S. firms, have greatly contributed to the competitiveness of U.S. companies in Vietnam. (references)
Women	Nepal	Even though the police may make an arrest, further prosecution often is not pursued by the victim or by the Government. (references)
	Ecuador	In cases of statutory rape involving "amorous" sex with a minor, if the rapist marries the victim the charges against him, or anyone else who took part in the rape, cannot be pursued unless the marriage subsequently is annulled. (references)
Worker Rights	Burkina Faso	Appeals may be pursued through the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court, whose decision is binding on both parties. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Louise Ashby	Well, we talked about it a while ago. Everything's just been kind of spoken about. Nothing's been actually pursued yet. But it is going to be pursued in the next few weeks.
Rush Limbaugh	Bush would have narrowly prevailed in the partial recount sought by Al Gore, but Al Gore could have reversed the outcome by the smallest of margins had he pursued and gained a complete statewide recount.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	At the same time that measures might be pursued with this view, our treaties with Prussia and Sweden, one of which is expired and the other near expiring, might be renewed.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Other reformations of the same kind will be pursued with that caution which is requisite in removing useless things, not to injure what is retained.
James Madison	1809-1817	For a more enlarged view of the public finances, with a view of the measures pursued by the Treasury Department previous to the resignation of the late Secretary, I transmit an extract from the last report of that officer.
James Monroe	1817-1825	With respect to internal causes, those great principles point out with equal certainty the policy to be pursued.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Not only was the evidence complete as to the past application of the money and power of the bank to electioneering purposes, but that the resolution of the board of directors authorized the same course to be pursued in future.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper.
William H. Taft	1909-1913	Any recognition of their distinguished men, any appointment to office from among their number, is properly taken as an encouragement and an appreciation of their progress, and this just policy should be pursued when suitable occasion offers.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Activities will be pursued when they can be uniquely or more efficiently accomplished in space.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pursued" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.14% of the time. "Pursued" is used about 1,290 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	64.14%	827	8,473
Lexical Verb (past tense)	34.86%	450	12,930
Adjective (general or positive)	0.93%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,290	N/A

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Language		Translations for "pursued"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مناضل (combatant, fighter, fighting, militant, striver, struggler), ‏ملاحق, ‏ساعي (courier). (various references)

Chinese		追求 (Pursue, Pursuing, Pursuit). (various references)

Danish		henstillinger er bindende med hensyn til de opstillede maal (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued). (various references)

Dutch		verbod van de uitlevering van een vreemdeling die vervolgd wordt wegens zijn inzet voor de vrijheid (to prohibit extradition of a foreigner pursued for activities in defence of freedom), de aanbevelingen zijn verbindend ten aanzien van de daarin gestelde doeleinden (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued). (various references)

French		poursuivi, réprimé, chercheur. (various references)

German		verfolgten, verfolgte (chased, haunted, persecuted, quarry, victim of persecution). (various references)

Greek		απαγορεύεται η έκδοση αλλοδαπού διωκόμενου για την υπέρ της ελευθερίας δράση του (to prohibit extradition of a foreigner pursued for activities in defence of freedom), οι συστάσεις συνεπάγονται υποχρέωση ως προς τους σκοπούς τους οποίους τάσσουν (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued). (various references)

Hebrew		ר�"וף (persecuted, ridden). (various references)

Hungarian		üldözött (ridden). (various references)

Italian		le raccomandazioni importano obbligo negli scopi che prescrivono (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued), divieto di estradare uno straniero contro il quale è in atto un procedimento penale a motivo della sua attivit� a favore della libert� (to prohibit extradition of a foreigner pursued for activities in defence of freedom). (various references)

Korean		�"구하�". (various references)

Manx		lorgit (trailed). (various references)

Pig Latin		ursuedpay

Portuguese		proibição de extraditar um estrangeiro perseguido pela sua actividade em prol da liberdade (to prohibit extradition of a foreigner pursued for activities in defence of freedom), as recomendações são obrigatórias quanto aos fins que determinam (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued). (various references)

Russian		преследовать;проводить;заниматься (pursue, pursuing). (various references)

Spanish		perseguido (chivied, importuned, pursuable). (various references)

Swedish		rekommendationerna skall vara bindande med avseende på de mål de avser (recommendations shall be binding as to the aims to be pursued). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai paralabwn pantaV touV adelfouV autou meq' eautou ediwxen opisw autou odon hmerwn epta kai katelaben auton en tw orei tw galaad
Latin	405	Vulgate	Qui adsumptis fratribus suis persecutus est eum diebus septem et conprehendit in monte Galaad
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The which, his britheren takun with hym, pursuede hym seuen dayes, and ouertook hym in the hil of Galaad.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Tha he toke his brethre with him and folowed after him .vij. dayes iourney and ouer toke him at the mounte Gilead.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 23
Cebuano	Unya gikuha niya ang iyang mga igsoon nga uban kaniya ug miapas sa ulahi niya sa panaw nga pito ka adlaw, ug iyang hing-abutan siya sa bukid sa Galaad.
Chinese	拉班帶 � � 他的眾弟兄去追趕、追了七日、在基列山就追上了。
Croatian	On povede sa sobom svoje roðake te je za Jakovom išao u potjeru sedam dana hoda; stiže ga na brdu Gileadu.
Danish	han tog da sine Frænder med sig, satte efter ham så langt som syv Dagsrejser og indhentede ham: i Gileads Bjerge
Dutch	Toen nam hij zijn broeders met zich, en jaagde hem achterna, een weg van zeven dagen, en hij kreeg hem op het gebergte van Gilead.
Finnish	Silloin hän otti mukaansa heimonsa miehet ja ajoi häntä takaa seitsemän päivänmatkaa ja saavutti hänet Gileadin vuorilla.
French	Il prit avec lui ses frères, le poursuivit sept journées de marche, et l`atteignit � la montagne de Galaad.
German	Und er nahm seine Brüder zu sich und jagte ihm nach sieben Tagereisen und ereilte ihn auf dem Berge Gilead.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Lalu Laban mengumpulkan orang-orangnya dan bersama-sama mereka mengejar Yakub selama tujuh hari sampai menyusulnya di daerah pegunungan Gilead.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka dibawa Laban segala saudaranya bersama-sama, lalu diusirnya akan dia sejauh perjalanan tujuh hari; maka didapatinya akan dia di gunung Gilead.
Italian	Allora egli prese con sé i suoi parenti, lo inseguì per sette giorni di cammino e lo raggiunse sulle montagne di G� laad.
Maori	Na ka tango ia i ona teina hei hoa mona, a ka wahi i a ia, e whitu nga ra ki te ara; a mau atu ia i a ia ki Maunga Kirera.
Norwegian	Da tok han med sig sine frender og satte efter ham syv dagsreiser, og nådde ham igjen på Gilead-fjellet.
Rumanian	Laban a luat cu el pe frayii sqi, l -a urmqrit cale de wapte zile, wi l -a ajuns la muntele Galaad.
Russian	фПЗ�"Б ПО ЧЪСМ У УП�'ПА ТП�"УФЧЕООЙЛПЧ УЧПЙИ, Й ЗОБМУС ЪБ ОЙН УЕНШ �"ОЕК, Й �"ПЗОБМ ЕЗП ОБ ЗПТЕ зБМББ�".
Swedish	Då tog han med sig sina fränder och satte efter honom sju dagsresor och hann upp honom på Gileads berg.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words ending with "pursued": repursued. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pursued" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parsue, perseid, persude, persued, prusiked, puerisque, puesue, pursaude, purssue, Pursu, pursuade, pursual, pursuay, pursude, pursuen, pursui, pursume, pursute, puruse, purvue, pussue, pusue, puusue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pursued" (pronounced persuw"d)
3	-s uw" d	ensued, sued.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: usurped.
	Words within the letters "d-e-p-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: drupes, dupers, perdus, prudes, pursed, pursue.
	-2 letters: drupe, druse, duper, dupes, dures, perdu, prude, pseud, purse, sprue, spued, super, usurp.
	-3 letters: dues, dupe, dups, dure, peds, puds, pure, purs, reds, reps, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sped, spud, spue, spur, sued, suer, supe, surd, sure, urds, urus, used, user.
	-4 letters: due, dup, eds, ers, ped.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-p-r-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: uproused, uprushed, upsurged.
	+2 letters: repursued, sulphured, superfund, superstud.
	+3 letters: drupaceous, plunderous, quadrupeds, quadruples, sculptured, superfluid, superfunds, superstuds, suppurated, turpitudes.
	+4 letters: outproduces, quadruplets, quadrupoles, sulphurised, superabound, superdeluxe, superfluids, superinduce, supersedure, undersupply, unpersuaded, unpressured, unsupported, unsurpassed, unsurprised.
	+5 letters: jurisprudent, pulchritudes, superabounds, superconduct, superinduced, superinduces, supersedures, unsupervised.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
pursued	5
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Pursued

Definition: Pursued

Pursued

Adjective

Noun

Synonym: Pursued

Crosswords: Pursued

Modern Usage: Pursued

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Books

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Image Slideshow: Pursued

Illustrations:Pursued

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Familiar Quotations: Pursued

Akhenaton

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Plato

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Schlegal

Use in Literature: Pursued

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Pursued

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Pursued

Louise Ashby

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Pursued

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Abraham Lincoln

William H. Taft

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Pursued

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pursued

Modern Translation: Pursued

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Bible Trace: Pursued

Matched Bible Translations: Pursued

Derivations & Misspellings: Pursued

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Rhyming with "Pursued"

Anagrams: Pursued

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