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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.0.48 [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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked [syn: {proceeding}, {legal proceeding}, {proceedings}]
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