Definition of "quest after" []

• Go in search of or hunt for (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Farther on an echidna broke off its quest after ants, panicked at her approach."
• "By the mid-1990s, more than three decades had passed since Bernard Rimland had embarked on his own quest after his son, Mark, began exhibiting signs of autism."
• "To him Ethan Brandt appears, a strange personage, long known for his quest after the unpardonable sin, and the solitude echoes back the gloominess of their conversation."