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What does "proceed" mean?

Proceed: To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.It proceeds from policy, not love. Shak.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 7.(Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
  7. 8.See Proceeds. [Obs.] Howell.

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