Proceed
Proceed , intransitive verb
[French procéder. from Latin 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.
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.
It proceeds from policy, not love.
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.
5.
To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obsolete]
He will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
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.
7.
(Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
Proceed , noun