 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
proceeding
noun: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal
judgments are invoked [syn: {legal proceeding}, {proceedings}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Proceeded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Proceeding}.] [F. proc['e]der. fr. L. procedere,
processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to
move. See {Cede}.]
1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to
continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a
journey.
If thou proceed in this thy insolence. --Shak.
2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as,
to proceed with a story or argument.
3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come
from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
I proceeded forth and came from God. --John viii.
42.
It proceeds from policy, not love. --Shak.
4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and
carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method;
to prosecute a design.
He that proceeds upon other principles in his
inquiry. --Locke.
5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]
He will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. --Shak.
6. To have application or effect; to operate.
This rule only proceeds and takes place when a
person can not of common law condemn another by his
sentence. --Ayliffe.
7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise;
emanate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proceeding \Pro*ceed"ing\, noun
1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or
transaction; progress or movement from one thing to
another; a measure or step taken in a course of business;
a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a
violent proceeding.
The proceedings of the high commission. --Macaulay.
2. pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an
action at law. --Blackstone.
{Proceedings of a society}, the published record of its
action, or of things done at its meetings.
Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See {Transaction}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "proceeding":
MO, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accounts, achievement, act,
acta, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advancing,
adventure, affair, affairs, affectation, air, algorithm, annals,
approach, archives, attack, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern,
behavioral norm, behavioral science, blow, business, carriage,
celebrations, comportment, concern, concernment, conduct, coup,
course, course of action, culture pattern, custom, dealings, deed,
demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, effort, endeavor, enterprise,
events, exploit, fait accompli, fashion, feat, folkway, form,
forward, forward-looking, gest, gestures, go, go-ahead, goings-on,
guise, hand, handiwork, interest, job, line, line of action, lines,
maintien, maneuver, manner, manner of working, manners, matter,
means, measure, method, methodology, methods, mien, minutes, mode,
mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi,
modus vivendi, motion, motions, move, movements, moves, moving,
observable behavior, oncoming, ongoing, onward, operation, order,
overt act, passage, pattern, performance, poise, port, pose,
posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceedings,
process, production, progressing, progressive, records, reports,
res gestae, routine, social science, step, stroke, stunt, style,
system, tack, tactics, technique, the drill, the how, the way of,
thing, thing done, tone, tour de force, transaction, transactions,
turn, undertaking, way, way of life, ways, wise, work, works
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