proceed
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[edit] Etymology
< Old French proceder < Latin procedere (“‘to go forth, go forward, advance, come forth, issue, go on, result, proceed’”) < pro (“‘forth’”) + cedere (“‘to go’”); see cede.
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- Rhymes: -iːd
[edit] Verb
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to proceed (third-person singular simple present proceeds, present participle proceeding, simple past and past participle proceeded)
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
- To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
- 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.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To have application or effect; to operate.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
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- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
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go forward
pass from one point to another
come forth as a source or origin
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go on in an orderly or regulated manner
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have application or effect
begin and carry on a legal process
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[edit] References
- proceed in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- proceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] See also
- proceeds (noun)
