proceed

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Alternative forms

• procede

Etymology

From Old French proceder, from Latin procedere (“to go forth, go forward, advance, come forth, issue, go on, result, proceed”), from pro (“forth”) + cedere (“to go”); see cede.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

proceed (third-person singular simple present proceeds, present participle proceeding, simple past and past participle proceeded)

1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.

   to proceed on a journey.

2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

   To proceed with a story or argument.

3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.

   Light proceeds from the sun.

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.
5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
6. To have application or effect; to operate.
7. To begin and carry on a legal process.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• MS Word Grammar Checker (like many native English speakers) confuses this word with "precede", "to go before".
• Many of the other English verbs ultimately derived from Latin cedere are spelled ending in "cede", so the misspelling "procede" is common.

Synonyms

• progress

Antonyms

• regress

Related terms

• procedure
• process

Translations

go forward

Dutch: doorgaan, verdergaan Finnish: edetä, mennä eteenpäin, jatkaa (fi) Hungarian: halad (hu) Italian: procedere (it)

Japanese: 前進する (ぜんしんする, zenshinsuru) Romanian: proceda (ro) Scottish Gaelic: lean (gd) Spanish: procede (es) Turkish: ilerlemek (tr), gitmek (tr)

pass from one point to another

Arabic: (من, from ) انطلق (ar) (inTalaqa) Dutch: doorgaan, verdergaan

Finnish: edetä (fi) Turkish: ilerlemek (tr)

come forth as a source or origin

Dutch: voortkomen, afkomstig zijn van

Finnish: lähteä (fi)

go on in an orderly or regulated manner

Dutch: doorgaan, verdergaan French: procéder (fr)

Turkish: devam etmek (tr), ilerlemek (tr)

take place

Dutch: doorgaan (nl) Hungarian: zajlik (hu)

Scottish Gaelic: lean (gd)

have application or effect

begin and carry on a legal process

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Translations to be checked

German: vorgehen

References

• proceed in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• proceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

See also

• proceeds (noun)

Anagrams

• pre-Code, precode