سعو ند سعى

مَسْعاةٌ ذ A means of attaining honour and eminence or elevation, in the various kinds of glory; (K;) a good, or laudable, act or endeavour; generosity: pl. مَسَاعٍ. (MA.) [See an ex. voce مَدْعَاةٌ, and another voce أَقْعَدَ.] J says, [in the S,] المَسْعَاةُ وَاحِدَةُ المَسَاعِى فِى الكَلَامِ وَالجُودِ: and the author of the K, following Sgh, says that he has committed a mistake in saying فِى الكَلَامِ instead of فِى الكَرَمِ: in some copies of the S is found فِى الكَرَمِ; but this is an emendation: the original reading is فِى الكَلَامِ: which, however, should be termed a slip of the pen [rather than a mistake, for it cannot be that J was ignorant of the meaning of so common a word as مَسْعَاةٌ]. (TA.)