proceedv.

Brit.

/prəˈsiːd/, U.S.

/prəˈsid/,

/proʊˈsid/

Forms: Middle English–1600s proced, Middle English–1600s proceede, Middle English–1600s prosede, Middle English– procede (now nonstandard), late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1600s proceade, 1500s prosed, 1500s prossed, 1500s–1600s proseed, 1500s–1600s proseede, 1500s– proceed; also Scottish pre-1700 procead, pre-1700 proceade, pre-1700 proced, pre-1700 procede, pre-1700 proceede, pre-1700 proceeid, pre-1700 proceid, pre-1700 proceide, pre-1700 proceyd, pre-1700 proceyde, pre-1700 procide, pre-1700 procied, pre-1700 prosead, pre-1700 prosede, pre-1700 prosede (past participle), pre-1700 proseed, pre-1700 proseid, pre-1700 proside.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French proceder; Latin prōcēdere.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French proceder (French procéder ) to go forward, advance, continue (13th cent. in Old French), to take legal proceedings (1302; also proceder contre to take legal proceedings against (mid 14th cent.)), to go about something, especially in a particular way (1314), to come forth, spring (c1370) and its etymon classical Latin prōcēdere to go forward, advance, progress, to make one's way, to come forth, spring, to continue, to go on speaking or writing, to carry on to a particular point, to make progress, to get on, to go by, pass, to be effectual, in post-classical Latin also to emanate (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), to initiate or conduct legal proceedings (from 12th cent. in British sources; also procedere contra to take legal proceedings against (from 13th cent. in British sources)) < prō pro- prefix¹ + cēdere cede v.

a. intransitive. To go or come forth from, out of, or †of a material thing or place; to emanate; (with reference to position or direction) to arise or spring from, to project from. Also in figurative context.Not always distinguishable from sense 1b when used with reference to origination from God.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]

outgoeOE

to come outOE

forthcomeOE

to go outOE

ishc1330

to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375

proceedc1380

getc1390

exorta1400

issue?a1400

precedec1425

purgea1430

to come forthc1449

suea1450

ushc1475

to call one's way (also course)1488

to turn outa1500

void1558

redound1565

egress1578

outpacea1596

result1598

pursue1651

out1653

pop1770

to get out1835

progress1851

c1380 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 328 The goost that fro the fader gan procede Hath souled hem.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 148 On þe liftside of þe necke ben ordeined ij nollis, whiche..proceden out of þe boonyes of þe heed..& þei strecchen doun to þe eeris in lenkþe biside þe spin boon.

a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 13 (MED) Fro depe rotes and derke proceden deleitable braunches.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1609 A culuer..Oute of whos byll procedyd a gret leme Downward to Doctryne, lyke a son beme.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 172 Fra everie mouthe fair wordis procedis.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. iv. f. iiij Every worde that proceadeth out off the mouth off god.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxij^v I beleue in the holy ghost, the Lorde and geuer of life, who procedeth from the father and the sonne.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 1 xiii. 33 (margin) Laker is a kinde of gum that procedeth of the Ant.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xvi. 170 There are many other Lakes in the high mountains, whence proceede brooks and rivers.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iv. §2. 64 The rain, proceeding from those vapours which we call the clouds.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 It is fixed..by two small shanks proceeding from that edge of the spring.

1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 43 This osseous matter could not proceed from the scapula, the glenoid cavity of that bone not being divested of its Cartilage.

1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 125 Soft sobs were heard proceeding from Catherine's bed.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 946/2 Gas-bracket, a branch proceeding from the wall, and having on its end a burner or burners.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 264 The most sumptuous work that has ever proceeded from the Cambridge Press.

1934 H. B. Lemon From Galileo to Cosmic Rays xxxvi. 350 (caption) Ripples on the surface of water proceeding from a source at the left are reflected from a plane mirror.

1947 Burlington Mag. Mar. 81/2 The Sacraments are connected with the Saviour by streams of blood, which all proceed..from the wound in the side.

1970 Music & Lett. 51 374 They hear remarkable and unfamiliar sounds proceeding from a cave in mount Cyllene.

2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck ii. 50 A particular manner of speech which gave rise to the illusion of a voice proceeding from elsewhere than the person of the utterer.

b. intransitive. In non-material sense: to originate, result, be derived, issue, arise (from, †of a source or cause).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)]

arisec950

syeOE

comeOE

riselOE

springc1175

buildc1340

derivec1386

sourdc1386

proceedc1390

becomea1400

to be descended (from, of)1399

bursta1400

to take roota1400

resolve?c1400

sourdre14..

springc1405

descenda1413

sprayc1425

well?a1475

depart1477

issue1481

provene1505

surmount1522

sprout1567

accrue?1576

source1599

dimane1610

move1615

drill1638

emane1656

emanate1756

originate1758

to hail from1841

deduce1866

inherita1890

stem1932

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > argue, dispute, discuss [verb (intransitive)]

mootOE

sannc1175

sputea1225

argue1303

argumentc1320

strive1340

proceedc1390

reason?c1425

to roll the stone1581

argumentate1586

discuss1587

litigate1606

canvass1631

argumentizea1641

to take by the beard1809

dudgeon1859

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]

becomec888

i-tidec888

falleOE

ywortheOE

i-limp975

belimpOE

i-timeOE

worthOE

tidea1131

goa1200

arearc1275

syec1275

betide1297

fere1297

risea1350

to come aboutc1350

overcomea1382

passa1393

comea1400

to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400

eschew?a1400

chevec1400

shapec1400

hold1462

to come (also go) to pass1481

proceed?1518

occura1522

bechance1527

overpass1530

sorta1535

succeed1537

adventurec1540

to fall toc1540

success1545

to fall forth1569

fadge1573

beword?1577

to fall in1578

happen1580

event1590

arrive1600

offer1601

grow1614

fudge1615

incur1626

evene1654

obvene1654

to take place1770

transpire1775

to go on1873

to show up1879

materialize1885

break1914

cook1932

to go down1946

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus B. 3063 God, of whom procedeth al vertu and al goodnesse..hym sente a wyf of so greet discrecioun.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 360 Thy swevenes..procede of thi malencolie.

c1450 (c1393) G. Chaucer Scogan 6 Allas, fro whennes may thys thing procede.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv Wherof procedeth to me grete solas and playsyre.

?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Biiij Yf by your labour, procedeth more rychesse.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. A.i^v Wherby somtime it proceadeth that..customes..whiche at sometyme haue beene in price, becumme not regarded.

a1628 F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady iv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 275 To giue all, and take nothing, proceeds of an vncaused goodnesse.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 Teach me the various Labours of the Moon, And whence proceed th' Eclipses of the Sun.

1737 Ld. Hervey Mem. II. 492 Imagining the Queen's pain to proceed from a goutish humour.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 Where deafness proceeds from an obstruction of the auditory duct, by wax.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 103 I shall believe our present religious Tolerancy to proceed from the abundance of our charity and good sense.

1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) iii. iii. 424 One-half of man's exertions, and more than one-half of his happiness, proceed from hope.

1889 F. C. Kolbe Minnie Caldwell iv. 30 Whatever ungentleness or unkindness she had shown.., had proceeded from thoughtlessness, not ungenerosity.

1926 D. S. Mirsky Contemp. Russ. Lit. vii. 311 Michael Zoshchenko..is..an ornamentalist, but his ornamentalism is a purely colloquial skaz, which proceeds from Leskov.

1959 Economist 3 July 42/1 Diversification may thus proceed from an overspill of strength in one department or another.

1990 R. H. Bork Tempting of Amer. 6 I dissented from a decision that seemed to proceed from sympathy rather than law.

c. intransitive. To be descended or spring from (formerly †of) a parent, ancestor, or stock. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > be descended [verb (intransitive)]

comeOE

springa1200

ofspringc1300

to be descended (from, of)1399

to run of ——?a1400

descenda1413

proceed?a1439

issuea1450

to come downc1450

outspringa1547

decline1598

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 191 (MED) He tofforn hadde had aveseoun, How ther shold oon procedyn of his lyne Which sholde hym putte out of his regeoun.

c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) 259 (MED) Blyssyd Ioachym..Of whom procedyd euyn naturally The most blessyd and glorious virgyn.

1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 27/2 Maria Cleophe the whiche was wedded to Alphe of whome proceded James the lesse.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 1 They were both of good birth, and proceeded of foure principal houses.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. v. 239 Eve, who..anomalously proceeded from Adam.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 381 Virgin Mother, Haile, High in the love of Heav'n, yet from my Loynes Thou shalt proceed, and from thy Womb the Son Of God most High.

1731 E. Aspinwall Apology ii. 57 As to the particular species of mankind, some were likewise of an opinion that it was without a beginning..some, that it..proceeded from some one first Primogenitor.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 117 We all proceed from the loins of Adam.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiii. 412 The inevitable result is that the modified descendants proceeding from one progenitor become broken up into groups subordinate to groups.

1869 Galaxy Sept. 315 To those who..believe that all varieties of the cow have proceeded from one original stock, it may be interesting to know that [etc.].

1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. II. 563 The equivalent of the individual comatula is the hydrozoic stock plus all the Medusae which proceed from it.

1977 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 45 331 We are told that God saw both ẓaddiqim and reshaʿim proceeding from Adam′s descendants.

2. intransitive (also in prepositional passive).

a. To begin and carry on an action or course of action, a piece of work, an investigation, etc.; to go about something, esp. in a particular way; to go about one's business. Frequently with reference to the manner with which the action, etc., is undertaken.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)]

workeOE

doOE

proceedc1390

movec1400

precedec1425

deal1470

plough furrow1597

walka1653

process1835

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2531 Yow ne oghte nat sodeynly ne hastily proceden in this nede.

1423 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 110 (MED) If he [sc. the Rector] be nat present, þan þe Faculte of Phisyk and þe Crafte of Cirurgy procede as he were present.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 13 (MED) Þu dost þo dom in nam of þe kirke, feiþfully wilyng þe mendment of þe synnar..and due ordre procedand up þe gospel.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 107 (MED) He that wold in this arte procede, To eschew falshode he hath grete nede.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 5159 To holde A counsell..And procede on hor purpos.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxiiij The cause, why the Emperor proceded on thys wise against them.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xv Who thus proceeds, for aye in sacred mount shall raign.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 59 Matters also of private regard were there proceeded upon.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade 36 Every Nation does proceed according to peculiar Methods of their own in..Law-making.

1718 Free-thinker No. 27. 1 The True Philosopher must always proceed with a sober Pace.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 14 We can proceed with confidence, because we can proceed with intelligence.

1817 H. T. Colebrooke Algebra Notes & Illustr. p. xlii These facts will be further weighed upon as we proceed.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xviii. 166 Observations of such value, that without them they could not proceed in their researches.

1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) vii. 210 Science proceeds in far the majority of cases by trial of some theory as a working hypothesis.

1904 L. Steffens Shame of Cities 55 The man proceeded with his work quickly, surely, smilingly, without fear or pity.

1980 W. Golding Rites of Passage 138 I decided I must proceed on the principle of the use of least force.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 311 I like this fairly sharp and might well add another teaspoon of caper juice, but proceed cautiously.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Mar. a17/6 A man of discipline, he..proceeded on the belief that his charisma and differences in style with Mr. Kerry would be compelling once voters got to see them more.

b. spec. To institute and carry on a legal action; to take legal proceedings, go to law (against, also formerly †upon a person). Also in early use occasionally in passive with it as subject.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)]

pursue1389

suea1422

pleada1425

proceed1425

pleac1450

to wage one's (or the) law1455

to go to (the) law?a1513

to put at ——1534

to prosecute the law against (also upon)1535

law?a1550

to follow a suit1571

prosecute1611

to go to suit1690

litigate1726

1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 273/1 I offre me to entre ye matier of right in ye name of my said Lord or Warr', and so to procede to ye ende.

1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 12 In whiche sute in þe seyd court it is proceded ageyn þe seyd Adam.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 10 (MED) We aske of you þat it be procedid aȝenst him, as owith to be don aȝen a breker of þe lawe.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxii. 255 Yf ye wyll procede vpon Huon by iustyce.

1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 272 At the laufull denouncement and request of our vniuersall clergye..we proceeded against him.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 176 In such rule, that the Venetian law cannot impugne you as you doe proceed .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 315 Proceed by Processe, Least parties..breake out.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 53 Direction, in what manner he should proceed against such as refused.

1798 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Mar. (1931) V. 106 I would not proceed against him for cutting my Wood.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 320 He had already..enjoined the bishops to proceed against all their clergy who did not observe the prescribed order.

1875 E. Poste tr. Instit. Gaius (ed. 2) iii. Comm. 405 A surety or guarantor of a debt may require the creditor to proceed against the principal first.

1912 Times 19 Oct. 5/4 No individual..shall be proceeded against or troubled in his person or property.

1958 Observer 10 Aug. 8/7 The Act..includes parish councils among the authorities empowered to proceed against litterers.

1997 Berlin of George Grosz (Royal Acad. of Arts Gallery Guide) 173 This print, together with two other images from Hintergrund, caused the authorities to proceed against Grosz and Herzfelde, the portfolio's publisher, for blasphemy.

†c. To argue, debate, answer an argument. Also in passive with it as subject. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5502 (MED) Þei treten and procede Touchinge þe exile and proscripcioun..Þat þei caste for Amphymacus.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 208 (MED) As for answere and assoiling to the firste argument, y procede thus.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 565 (MED) Aȝens al this blamyng..it is procedid in othere placis of my writingis.

1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 120 Who proceeds with them on the supposition of a lost New Testament.

d. With with. To treat or deal with a person, esp. judicially; to take action with regard to a person. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. xvi. 117 If a man stand excommunicate aboue an whole yere, he may be proceeded with for suspicion of heresy.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xiv. 235 These men..ought not to be proceeded with, with such rigour.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 69 I will not hide My judgments, how with Mankind I proceed .

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 11 But how severely with themselves proceed The Men, who write such Verse as we can read?

1831 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 330 The party offending should not only be disfranchised, but otherwise proceeded with to the utmost rigour of the law.

1915 R. Sabatini Sea-hawk ii. xxiv. 338 It is my intention to proceed with him as is the manner of the sea with all knaves taken as Oliver Tressilian was taken.

3. intransitive. To go, move, or travel forward or onward, esp. after stopping or after reaching a certain point; to resume one's movement or travel.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]

nimeOE

becomec885

teec888

goeOE

i-goc900

lithec900

wendeOE

i-farec950

yongc950

to wend one's streetOE

fare971

i-wende971

shakeOE

winda1000

meteOE

wendOE

strikec1175

seekc1200

wevec1200

drawa1225

stira1225

glidea1275

kenc1275

movec1275

teemc1275

tightc1275

till1297

chevec1300

strake13..

travelc1300

choosec1320

to choose one's gatea1325

journeyc1330

reachc1330

repairc1330

wisec1330

cairc1340

covera1375

dressa1375

passa1375

tenda1375

puta1382

proceedc1392

doa1400

fanda1400

haunta1400

snya1400

take?a1400

thrilla1400

trace?a1400

trinea1400

fangc1400

to make (also have) resortc1425

to make one's repair (to)c1425

resort1429

ayrec1440

havea1450

speer?c1450

rokec1475

wina1500

hent1508

persevere?1521

pursuec1540

rechec1540

yede1563

bing1567

march1568

to go one's ways1581

groyl1582

yode1587

sally1590

track1590

way1596

frame1609

trickle1629

recur1654

wag1684

fadge1694

haul1802

hike1809

to get around1849

riddle1856

bat1867

biff1923

truck1925

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)]

wadeOE

agoOE

forthganga1000

forthgoOE

syeOE

kenc1275

to-stepc1275

vaunce1303

forthnima1325

passc1330

throc1330

forthpass1382

to pass forthc1384

to carry forthc1390

proceedc1392

to go alongc1400

to be forthwardc1430

get) groundc1436

to set onc1450

avauntc1460

pretend1481

to make way1490

advance?1507

to get forward1523

promove1570

to rid ground (also space)1572

to rid (the) way1581

progressa1586

to gather grounda1593

to make forth1594

to make on1597

to work up1603

perge1607

to work one's (also its) way1609

to pass on1611

to gain ground1625

to make its way1645

vadea1660

propagate1700

to gain one's way1777

further1789

to pull up1829

on1840

to make (up) ground1921

c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 34 (MED) Rekne..from lettere D þat is grauen in his lytel cercle & procede in the same litel cercle to ward lettere E.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 6215 (MED) Forþe þei gan procede To þe temple wiþ þis large stede.

?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 639 (MED) The Kyng, procedyng fforth on his way, Kome to the Conduyte.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 72 (MED) Late us take mary, our dowtere..and to þe temple with here procede.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hv^v Before we procede in our iourney.

a1550 Sir A. Barton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 72 But up in haist he did prossed.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. xii. 2146/2 Making their prayers at the gresinges, they so proceded into the stalles.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. vi. 224 Then proceeding on their way, they finde an Arch.

1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 412 That the Lords &c: should proceede in their Coaches through the Citty for the more solemnity of it.

1743 J. Morris Serm. vii. 183 Elisha..did not procede on his intended journey.

1768 Woman of Honor III. 87 This intention of her's, to proceed for Lancashire.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 19 He certainly would not..have suffered the coachman to proceed while the horse was unfit for service.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 Accompanied by our guide, we proceeded to the glacier.

1890 T. Hardy in Bristol Times & Mirror 11 Jan. 9/1 She left the house, and, bundle in hand, proceeded at a trot along the lane.

1927 S. T. Warner Mr. Fortune's Maggot 29 He..proceeded (the word is more dignified than walked)..toward his clothes.

1959 G. L. Harding Antiq. Jordan vi. 124 The visitor must proceed either on foot or by horse into Petra itself.

1996 E. Danticat Caroline's Wedding in Krik? Krak! 166 A line of altar boys proceeded down the aisle, each carrying a long lit candle.

4. With emphasis on the progress or continuance of the action (cf. sense 2).

a. intransitive. To continue or go on with what has been started; to advance from the point already reached, go further, pursue one's course; to go on after interruption, to renew or resume action or speech. Frequently with with.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)]

wadec1374

passc1387

proceeda1393

followa1400

to pass ona1400

to get forward1523

pace1597

step1599

to get on1655

to get along1768

to tide one's way1827

to come along1844

press1870

the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > behave towards

ateec1000

leadc1175

makec1175

farec1230

beleadc1275

dightc1275

beseec1300

servec1300

treatc1374

usea1382

proceeda1393

demean1393

to deal witha1400

treatc1400

to do to ——a1425

entreat?a1425

handc1440

ferea1450

entertain1490

ray1509

to do unto ——?1523

tract1548

deal1573

to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to)c1591

play1597

to comport with1675

to behave towards or to1754

usen1814

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > progress or advance to another action

suea1200

goc1275

to pass forthc1384

proceeda1393

to go on1566

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1025 Ther wist non what other mente, So that thei myhten noght procede.

?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 635 Thow shalt haue strenth and myht, Forth to procede in large ffelicite.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) 103 Procedeth now forth in youre mater.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xix. 2 And Ionathas proceaded further, and sware vnto Dauid (he loued him so well).

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xvj^v Exhorting him to procede as he hath begonne.

1601 W. Watson Sparing Discov. 9 But what if these Fathers..haue proceeded further?

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia x. 74 I proceeded on with my trial.

1714 L. Theobald tr. Sophocles Electra ii. i. 19 If you still think me in the wrong, tho' I have Justice ne'er so much on my side, proceed with your Accusation against me.

1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 423 Presenting the matter at first with a seeming eagerness, but proceeding afterwards more remisly.

1835 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 7 47 Without such a collective name for the group, I found it impracticable to proceed with the work which I had engaged to complete.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 484 The Commons..refused to proceed with public business till their members were restored.

1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel iv. 96 He was one of those men that begin quietly and grow more angry as they proceed, their wrongs apparently working within them like yeast.

1940 R. Wright Native Son iii. 325 There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed.

1992 PC Computing Mar. 169/3 The system may recommend that you not defragment your drive again; ignore the recommendation and proceed with the defrag.

2002 Disability Now Nov. 14/4 We need advanced statements so that people can say what they want to happen if they are sectioned, what they want to happen to their treatment and how they want to proceed with their lives.

b. intransitive. With infinitive as complement. To go on to do something.In later use frequently with the suggestion that the action specified is in some way unexpected or uncalled-for.

ΚΠ

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 622 (MED) I wol procede To speke upon Mathematique.

c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) i. l. 59 (MED) The licour of thy grace do shede Into my penne..þat I may procede Sumwaht to saye.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. xxii. 230 We shall not proceed to querie, what truth there is in Palmistrie.

1774 T. Warton Hist Eng. Poetry (1840) I. iii. 116 I therefore proceed to observe, that [etc.].

1816 Times 5 June 3/2 The negroes first proceeded to demolish the overseers' houses; they then destroyed the sugar-pans.

1896 W. Harcourt Speech in Commons 29 July The hon. member made a speech last night in which he proceeded to involve himself in his own virtue.

1907 G. M. Norman Systematic Pract. Org. Chem. ii. 91 Examinations Questions... 1903... How would you proceed to make gun-cotton from cotton-wool.

1922 D. Lindsay Haunted Woman viii. 74 Having emptied his glass at a gulp, Roger pulled out a cigar, which he proceeded to cut and light with relish.

1996 Mail on Sunday 28 Apr. 78/6 The Muncheners, having hidden all the city's host of works of art in distant monasteries, then proceeded—using old plans and materials—to reconstruct the place precisely as it had been.

2003 Mojo Nov. 105/2 The leader..proceeded to make a Stratocaster do things Leo Fender surely had never dreamed of.

c. intransitive. To continue or pursue a discourse (spoken or written). Also transitive: to go on to say (with direct speech as object, or parenthetically).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > action of informing > give information [verb (intransitive)] > continue or pursue one's discourse

proceedc1395

c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 1019 I wol procede as now And telle forth my tale of the chanoun.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1463 (MED) Troie boke spekeþ of hym no more, But procedeth..How Horrestes cast hym for to quyte His fadres deth.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 71 (MED) How our lady was conseyvid and how she was bore, We passe ovyr þat..and so forth proced.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xiii. 52 I must procede, and shew of Arismetrik With divers nombres which I must reporte.

1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) vi. 72 + 6 Heirof as now I will na mair proceid.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 563 The conqueror is dismaid: proceed good Alexander.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 280 To proceed, the land of Egypt is highly renowned.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 27 Proceed, my Muse: Two Satyrs, on the ground, Stretch'd at his Ease, their Syre Sylenus found.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. vii. 38 Allworthy paused a Moment, and then proceeded: ‘I have talked thus to you,..to caution and strengthen you for the future.’

1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story II. v. 87 He seemed to wait for her reply, but as she made none, he proceeded.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. x. 172 He paused, and then proceeded; ‘I do not intrude myself on your confidence [etc.] ’.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 37 The Holy Sacraments, he proceeds, were frightfully profaned.

1932 Punch 23 Nov. 584/1 ‘As I was saying,’ Vincent proceeded, ‘after paying at the box-office I must have put the notecase into my overcoat-pocket instead of my coat-pocket, by mistake.’

1991 Henry James Rev. Winter 39 Before I proceed, one caveat. In explaining why, psychologically, James resorts to fantasy, I may seem to be belittling him artistically.

d. intransitive. To advance to another action, subject, etc.; to pass on from one point to another in a series or sequence of any kind (used also of the series, or of its terms or items).

ΚΠ

1415 Choosing Mayor Norwich (Cleo. C.x) 50 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Behaven In procedyng to þis present eleccoun, be haueth ȝowe & rewle ȝow gudlie & honestlie.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 311 (MED) To my purpose I wyll anone procede; The trowthe to recorde, I wyll no lengor tary.

1520 Chron. Eng. i. f. 6/2 Of thes men is lytel wryten in scrypture and therfore I procede to other.

1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. D.ij Then shall the Bishop procede to the Communion.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2 I will begin with one of their toyes, and so proceed to greater matters.

1610 T. Campion New Way Counter-point sig. E6 The one part proceeding by degree, the other by leap.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. i. 3 Before I proceed on to what I have thought on this Subject.

1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 35 The Terms in the horizontal Row must be placed to proceed from the greater Indices to the lesser.

1825 C. Thirlwall tr. F. Schleiermacher Crit. Ess. Luke 168 The narrative proceeds from one incident to another, by the slightest connecting phrases.

1854 D. Brewster More Worlds xv. 221 From the globular clusters of stars our author proceeds to the binary systems.

1953 Trans. Soc. Instrument Technol. 5 126/2 The pilot unit is not usually constructed unless the manufacturer is satisfied that he will eventually proceed to the erection of a full-scale plant.

1996 Daily Tel. 7 June 23/2 Their routine was then intended to proceed with bravura tastelessness to a depiction of Jewish women arriving at the Nazi death camps and being singled out for the gas chambers.

2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 27 I was just saying it because that's what you say when someone says something like that. It's a burnt offering to the god of conversation; once out and said we could proceed with a grin to the next point.

e. intransitive. To carry on an action or discourse to a particular point or stage; to make (some) progress; to advance (so far). Now rare.In later use passing into senses 2a and 4a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > to a certain point or stage

proceed1560

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiiij^v When he had a litle proceded, he demaundeth of him in Latin, whether he wil kepe the Catholicke faith.

1643 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 492 The..rampier.., begun and considerablie proceeded in in ould time.., was this yeare recontinued.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 105 The treaty was so far proceeded in that it was near a perfection.

1708 C. Leslie Let. against Sacramental Test 25 They have been willing to come to Terms of Accommodation; and have so far proceeded as to center in the Pope as the Principium Unitatis.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §132 We again proceeded towards mooring the sloop.

1816 Monthly Mag. 41 124 Having so far proceeded in a strain of dictatorship, that some..may deem altogether presumptive.

1916 Englewood (Chicago) Times 28 Jan. Having proceeded so far successfully, she thought for an instant, trying to determine what her next move would be. Picking up the scissors she [etc.].

†f. intransitive. To achieve prosperity or advancement; to get on, to prosper. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress

furtherc1200

profit1340

to go alongc1400

to get forward1523

advance1577

proceedc1592

to take or make strides1600

to get on1655

to get along1768

to get ahead1807

to be well away1821

to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923

ramp1980

c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. iii This is the hour wherein I shall proceed; Oh, happy hour, wherein I shall convert An infidel.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. F2^v These things, when they proceed not, they goe backward.

1706 London Gaz. No. 4191/1 The French proceed but very slowly in the Siege of the Castle.

1777 S. Johnson Let. 18 Sept. (1992) III. 68 Invite Mr. Levet to dinner and make enquiry what family he has, and how they proceed.

†5. transitive. To go on with, to cause to advance or progress; to carry on, carry forward. Obsolete.In passive used of legal proceedings. Cf. sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)]

doeOE

followOE

holda1100

found1340

exercec1374

enhaunta1382

usea1398

proceed1399

apply?c1400

practise?c1430

exercise1467

takea1500

plya1513

enure1549

prosecute1567

inurea1577

manage1579

to stand on ——1599

to carry on1638

cultivate1654

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > carry on (of proceedings) [verb (intransitive)]

proceed1399

1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/2 This Appel..was so grete and so hegh..And all bygone and proceded oute of the course of the commone Lawe, so that..it myght not wele be redressede no punissed bot by the Kyng.

1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 441/2 Your saide Warde..besekes..yat in yis matier nothing be proceded nor putte in execution to his disheritance.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxiv. [cx.] 327 Then I began to wake, to procede this historye more than I dyd before.

1585 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 9 That nathing suld be procedit aganis hir be vertew thairof.

1779 J. Darrell Let. 25 Jan. in B. B. Oberg Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1990) XXVIII. 425 He is unable to proceed the Voyage with me.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 36 So that the man may only have to proceed, not to begin, the important task of learning to think and reason.

1817 W. Sewall Diary (1930) 20 Moved my desk and books home, into my chamber for the purpose of proceeding my studies.

6. Of an action, process, etc.

a. intransitive. To take place, occur; to go on, be carried out; to take effect. Cf. sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > go or proceed

yernc900

proceed?a1439

to pass off1752

the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed

wharvec888

passa1393

proceed?a1439

stir1526

progress1600

to go on1735

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 3713 (MED) Noble Pryncis..Remembryng stories of antiquite, Afforn prouidyng that tresoun nat proceede, Beth ay most dreedful in prosperite.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 28 (MED) If þe law procede for me, be þe sentance of þe law I sall aw þe no thyng, for I ouercom þe.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 172 (MED) His iusticie procedith..to the confusion of theim þat cause the iniquityf wikednes.

1521 Town Clerk's Oath of Office in Maldon (Essex) Liber B lf. 57^v Ye shall truly write all siche procese as shall procede this yere betwix party and party.

1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A4(1) Secondly, that..you may generally know & learne what the countrey is, & therevpon consider how your dealing therein if it proceede, may returne you profit and gaine.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 182 He will..tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to day.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 With Diligence the fragrant Work proceeds .

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 352 This Rule..proceeds and takes place when the Ambiguity thereof consists in some Points of Law alone.

1795 E. Fenwick Secresy II. ii. 16 Oh, Miss Ashburn! by that benignity which irradiates your every action I conjure you suffer it [sc. the marriage] to proceed!

1822 Times 20 May 3/2 The elections for renewing the Chamber of Deputies by a fifth are now proceeding with great activity.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 85 Forth I fared:..Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow.

1928 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 135 114/1 The upper states cannot allow any construction to proceed in the lower basin before the compact is ratified.

1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. 56 (caption) This reaction does not proceed unless the AMP formed is removed.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iii/6 Economic conditions have prevented work proceeding on tall structures in several other space-starved cities.

b. intransitive. To go on or advance to a certain point or degree; to be carried on further; to continue, progress. Cf. sense 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)

fremec1000

furtherc1200

profit1340

to go onc1449

grow1487

to commence to, intoa1500

framea1529

to get ground?1529

movec1540

work1566

promove1570

advance1577

devolve1579

to come on1584

progress1612

to gain ground1625

germinate1640

proceed1670

to gather ground1697

march1702

to make its way1711

to come forward1722

develop1744

to turn a wheel1864

shape1865

come1899

the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > continue (of an action or operation)

runOE

to go fortha1382

to go or run on wheelsc1547

proceed1885

to wear on1886

1670 A. Marvell Let. 26 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 104 The two bills..are both yet proceeded no further then to a Commitment.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 122 To what a pitch..the depravity of the poet had proceeded.

1787 R. Burns Let. Feb. (2001) I. 94 My devotions proceed no farther than a forenoon's walk, a sentimental conversation, now and then a squeeze of the hand.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. iv. 89 The book is..hammered near the back edge, with such a peculiar movement of the left hand as causes the back to become rounded while the hammering proceeds.

1885 Law Times Rep. 53 466/2 The jury was discharged by consent, and the case proceeded before the judge alone.

1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 156 The Pantomime proceeds without further disturbance.

1934 R. Graves I, Claudius i. 15 It is myself writing as I feel, and as the history proceeds the reader will be the more ready to believe that I am hiding nothing.

1984 C. A. Vincent et al. Mod. Batteries 240 The current is high at the beginning of the charge, and falls off as the charging proceeds.

2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Dec. 69/1 Fortunately, the show's palette broadens considerably as it proceeds through 10 of Poe's short stories and poems.

7. intransitive. Frequently with to or complement.

a. To advance in a university course from a first degree to a second or higher one, or (formerly) to a first degree. Also: (in the Inns of Court) †to advance or be admitted to the status of a barrister (obsolete). Cf. graduate v. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (intransitive)]

commencea1387

proceed1455

to pass master?1566

graduate1807

incept1852

to go out in the poll1889

to pass out1916

society > law > legal profession > practice law [verb (intransitive)] > be admitted as barrister

to be called to the barc1545

proceed1640

to go to the bar1849

1455 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 77 (MED) I wol that the said ij prestis be seculers, bachelers of diuinite, or at the leste maisters of Arte, vertuose and wel disposed to lerne and for to procede in degree.

1479 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 645 I supposed..that þe Qwenys broder schold have procedyd at Mydsomer.

1536 Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 13 §5 Any person..which shal resorte to any of the sayde vniuersities to procede doctours in diuinitie.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvii^v Althoughe I..haue not proceded to degre in the Vniuersitie.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1297/1 He proceaded Bachelour of Diuinitye in the sayde Vniuersitye of Cambridge.

1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 41 I am a scholler, and I haue proceeded maister in the seauen Liberall Sciences.

1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 131 After hee became student in the Temple, where he proceeded Barrester.

a1645 W. Laud Diary in Hist. Troubles (1695) I. 1 I proceeded Batchelour of Arts, June 1594.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. ix. 28/2 His Eldest Son he maintained at the Colledge until he proceeded Master of Arts.

1755 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) II. 93 To take effectual measures to prevent those, who proceeded Bachelors of Arts, from having entertainments of any kind,..after the Commencement day.

1828 H. Gunning Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. (new ed.) 168 Between the two Congregations he [sc. a B.A. of 3 years' standing] visits the Vice-Chancellor..(Note. The practice of visiting is now discontinued. The Candidates for degrees ask the Vice-Chancellor leave to proceed as he is quitting the Senate-House.)

1879 M. Pattison Milton i. 8 In 1632, when he proceeded to his M.A. degree, Milton was twenty-four.

1893 Daily News 24 Mar. 5/3 The new Archdeacon was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, graduated B.A... in 1847, and proceeded M.A. in 1851, B.D. in 1856, and D.D. in 1860.

1913 Mod. Philol. 11 91 In 1576, the year that Spenser proceeded M.A.

1955 Times 11 Feb. 10/6 When the time came for him to proceed to the degree of D.Sc. in 1913 he had already turned to psychology.

1983 M. Cox M. R. James (1986) i. 2 Herbert proceeded to the degree of BA in 1847.

2001 C. Cross in R. Horrox & S. Rees Jones Pragmatic Utopias xv. 262 A long academic career, during which he proceeded MA, BTh and DTh and in 1539 as Cromwell's nominee was elected Master of Balliol.

†b. In extended use: to advance to some status or function; to grow or develop into, to become (what is expressed by the complement). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become

yworthOE

worthOE

goOE

becomec1175

come?a1200

waxc1220

charea1225

aworthc1275

makea1300

fallc1300

breedc1325

grow1340

strikea1375

yern1377

entera1382

turna1400

smitec1400

raxa1500

resolvea1500

to get into ——?1510

waxen1540

get1558

prove1560

proceed1578

befall1592

drop1654

evade1677

emerge1699

to turn out1740

to gain into1756

permute1864

slip1864

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 67 That as you haue proued learned Philosophers, you will also proceede excellent diuines.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) Prol. in Wks. I. 5 To make a child, now swadled, to proceede Man.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. viii. 214 Shall a Plant take a new degree & proceed Sensible?

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 Shooting out with Legs, and imp'd with Wings, The Grubs proceed to Bees with pointed Stings.

1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 224 After they were become Masters in the Law, they proceeded Rabbi or Doctor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	proceed
释义	proceedn. Brit. /ˈprəʊsiːd/, U.S. /ˈproʊˌsid/ Forms: see proceed v. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: proceed v. Etymology: < proceed v. †1. The action, fact, or manner of proceeding; a course of action; an affair, a proceeding. Also in plural (cf. proceeding n. 2b). Obsolete.In quot. c1450: a judgment, a verdict. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] progressionc1385 proceeding?c1425 progressc1443 proceedc1450 procession1585 gate1604 procedure1640 foreholda1642 process1642 promotion1649 sailing1827 sledding1839 on-go1870 the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > system or way of proceeding i-wunec888 proceeding1425 trainc1475 way1563 procedure?1577 management1649 proceed1674 démarche1721 trade1721 procédé1861 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 28 (MED) If þe law procede for me..I sall aw þe no thyng..And if þe procede be agayns me, I sall aw nothyng be counand. c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 124 And in all actions, and especiallye in prences proceids where there is no appellatioun nor Iustice seate to reclame vnto, men..suspends there Iudgments. 1602 Dundonald Parish Rec. 24 He and his gudbrether..saw the begining and proceid of the tumvlt. 1613 J. Saris Jrnl. 18 Apr. in Voy. Japan (1900) 63 To stay and refresh tell the monson will permit our proseede. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 1 For our more orderly proceed into the body of this Work. 1674 J. Owen Vindic. Disc. Commun. 56 His proceed in the same Page is to Except against that Revelation of the Wisedom of God, which I affirm to have been made. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 29 Repair to that solitary Grove..be-sure you disappoint us not, and bring your Narrative of all the Proceeds. 1818 Ld. Byron Let. 15 July (1976) VI. 59 If I did not know of old..Spooney a damned tortoise in all his proceeds—I should suspect foul play. 2. That which proceeds, is derived, or results from something else; that which is obtained or gained by any transaction or process; an outcome; esp. the money obtained from an event, activity, or enterprise. a. In singular. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else daughtereOE outcasting1340 impc1380 childa1398 outgrowing?a1425 proventc1451 provenuec1487 excrescency1545 sprig1575 procedure?1577 proceed1578 derivative1593 offspring1596 superfetation1603 excression1610 shootc1610 excretion1615 slip1627 excrescence1633 derivation1641 derivate1660 offshoot1801 offtracta1806 deduction1835 outgrowth1837 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 1578 J. Whithal Let. 26 June in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (1589) III. 702 You must let her depart from London in October, and to touch in the Canaries, and there to make sale of the saide karsies, and with the proceed thereof to lade fifteene tunnes of wines that be perfect and good. 1617 T. Roe Let. 6 Dec. in Embassy of Sir T. Roe to Court of Great Mogul (1899) II. 447 The Proceede much enlardged, double to former years (as they write), in best Commoditie. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxviii. 54 The onely procede (that I may use the mercantil term) you can expect, is thanks. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 77 This so good a security, and so gainful a proceed to many aged Stationers, their Widows and Children, This Dreadful Fire has wholly consumed. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxx. 280 They were surprized, that I had given up to you the proceed of her grandfather's estate, since his death. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 256 The neat proceed of the same sum, expended in the same given time..will amount only to [etc.]. 1826 Times 22 Apr. 4/5 As all the proceed of Ireland ought to be spent in Ireland, so all the proceed of one county in Ireland ought to be spent in the same. 1891 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) viii. 74 Dust and not flour is the proceed. 1946 Michigan Law Rev. 44 600 That defect of the 1943 act which inhered in its failure expressly to provide whether a bona fide collecting junior assignee was accountable to the senior assignee for the proceed of such collection. 1999 D. M. Cutler in B. M. Friedman Should U.S. privatize Social Security? iii. 126 During the next period, when the young are retired, they need to be paid the $1.06 that is the proceed of their account. b. In plural. ΚΠ 1661 J. Bland Humble Remonstrance 2 With the proceeds of those very goods return for England, and there produce more advantage to Your Majesties Customes. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Proceed, that which arises from a thing; as The Neat Proceeds among Merchants. 1707 tr. J. Monier de Clairecombe New & Universal Pract. Mercantile Arithm. xvii. 133 The Neat proceeds of their Prizes, amounting to 456386 l. 16 s. 8 d. 1786 Case of Ship Nicholas (Lords Commissioners of Appeals) 8 The captor sometime afterwards, when the precise amount of the net proceeds of sale had been ascertained, gave bail in the usual manner. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 287 The net proceeds of the customs amounted in the same year to five hundred and thirty thousand pounds. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 877 Handing over the proceeds of sale to the execution creditor. 1941 ‘Faugh-a-Ballagh’ 34 85/1 We started a harmonica band with the proceeds of one of the concerts. 1969 D. R. Cressey Theft of Nation v. 82 He channels the syndicate's proceeds from bet-taking and narcotics into highly profitable circulation. 1990 Police Rev. 28 Sept. 1927/2 [He] is strongly suspected of a spate of other burglaries committed in the area and there are reasonable grounds for believing that the proceeds are at his flat. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Nov. a3/2 (advt.) For every Labradoodle sold through Christmas, Lord & Taylor will donate a portion of the proceeds to Guiding Eyes for the Blind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). proceedv. Brit. /prəˈsiːd/, U.S. /prəˈsid/, /proʊˈsid/ Forms: Middle English–1600s proced, Middle English–1600s proceede, Middle English–1600s prosede, Middle English– procede (now nonstandard), late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s–1600s proceade, 1500s prosed, 1500s prossed, 1500s–1600s proseed, 1500s–1600s proseede, 1500s– proceed; also Scottish pre-1700 procead, pre-1700 proceade, pre-1700 proced, pre-1700 procede, pre-1700 proceede, pre-1700 proceeid, pre-1700 proceid, pre-1700 proceide, pre-1700 proceyd, pre-1700 proceyde, pre-1700 procide, pre-1700 procied, pre-1700 prosead, pre-1700 prosede, pre-1700 prosede (past participle), pre-1700 proseed, pre-1700 proseid, pre-1700 proside. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French proceder; Latin prōcēdere. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French proceder (French procéder ) to go forward, advance, continue (13th cent. in Old French), to take legal proceedings (1302; also proceder contre to take legal proceedings against (mid 14th cent.)), to go about something, especially in a particular way (1314), to come forth, spring (c1370) and its etymon classical Latin prōcēdere to go forward, advance, progress, to make one's way, to come forth, spring, to continue, to go on speaking or writing, to carry on to a particular point, to make progress, to get on, to go by, pass, to be effectual, in post-classical Latin also to emanate (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), to initiate or conduct legal proceedings (from 12th cent. in British sources; also procedere contra to take legal proceedings against (from 13th cent. in British sources)) < prō pro- prefix¹ + cēdere cede v. 1. a. intransitive. To go or come forth from, out of, or †of a material thing or place; to emanate; (with reference to position or direction) to arise or spring from, to project from. Also in figurative context.Not always distinguishable from sense 1b when used with reference to origination from God. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] outgoeOE to come outOE forthcomeOE to go outOE to go outOE ishc1330 to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375 proceedc1380 getc1390 exorta1400 issue?a1400 precedec1425 purgea1430 to come forthc1449 suea1450 ushc1475 to call one's way (also course)1488 to turn outa1500 void1558 redound1565 egress1578 outpacea1596 result1598 pursue1651 out1653 pop1770 to get out1835 progress1851 c1380 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 328 The goost that fro the fader gan procede Hath souled hem. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 148 On þe liftside of þe necke ben ordeined ij nollis, whiche..proceden out of þe boonyes of þe heed..& þei strecchen doun to þe eeris in lenkþe biside þe spin boon. a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 13 (MED) Fro depe rotes and derke proceden deleitable braunches. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1609 A culuer..Oute of whos byll procedyd a gret leme Downward to Doctryne, lyke a son beme. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 172 Fra everie mouthe fair wordis procedis. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. iv. f. iiij Every worde that proceadeth out off the mouth off god. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxij^v I beleue in the holy ghost, the Lorde and geuer of life, who procedeth from the father and the sonne. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 1 xiii. 33 (margin) Laker is a kinde of gum that procedeth of the Ant. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xvi. 170 There are many other Lakes in the high mountains, whence proceede brooks and rivers. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iv. §2. 64 The rain, proceeding from those vapours which we call the clouds. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 It is fixed..by two small shanks proceeding from that edge of the spring. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 43 This osseous matter could not proceed from the scapula, the glenoid cavity of that bone not being divested of its Cartilage. 1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. 125 Soft sobs were heard proceeding from Catherine's bed. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 946/2 Gas-bracket, a branch proceeding from the wall, and having on its end a burner or burners. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 264 The most sumptuous work that has ever proceeded from the Cambridge Press. 1934 H. B. Lemon From Galileo to Cosmic Rays xxxvi. 350 (caption) Ripples on the surface of water proceeding from a source at the left are reflected from a plane mirror. 1947 Burlington Mag. Mar. 81/2 The Sacraments are connected with the Saviour by streams of blood, which all proceed..from the wound in the side. 1970 Music & Lett. 51 374 They hear remarkable and unfamiliar sounds proceeding from a cave in mount Cyllene. 2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck ii. 50 A particular manner of speech which gave rise to the illusion of a voice proceeding from elsewhere than the person of the utterer. b. intransitive. In non-material sense: to originate, result, be derived, issue, arise (from, †of a source or cause). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)] arisec950 syeOE comeOE riselOE springc1175 buildc1340 derivec1386 sourdc1386 proceedc1390 becomea1400 to be descended (from, of)1399 bursta1400 to take roota1400 resolve?c1400 sourdre14.. springc1405 descenda1413 sprayc1425 well?a1475 depart1477 issue1481 provene1505 surmount1522 sprout1567 accrue?1576 source1599 dimane1610 move1615 drill1638 emane1656 emanate1756 originate1758 to hail from1841 deduce1866 inherita1890 stem1932 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > argue, dispute, discuss [verb (intransitive)] mootOE sannc1175 sputea1225 argue1303 argumentc1320 strive1340 proceedc1390 reason?c1425 to roll the stone1581 argumentate1586 discuss1587 litigate1606 canvass1631 argumentizea1641 to take by the beard1809 dudgeon1859 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] becomec888 i-tidec888 falleOE ywortheOE i-limp975 belimpOE i-timeOE worthOE tidea1131 goa1200 arearc1275 syec1275 betide1297 fere1297 risea1350 to come aboutc1350 overcomea1382 passa1393 comea1400 to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400 eschew?a1400 chevec1400 shapec1400 hold1462 to come (also go) to pass1481 proceed?1518 occura1522 bechance1527 overpass1530 sorta1535 succeed1537 adventurec1540 to fall toc1540 success1545 to fall forth1569 fadge1573 beword?1577 to fall in1578 happen1580 event1590 arrive1600 offer1601 grow1614 fudge1615 incur1626 evene1654 obvene1654 to take place1770 transpire1775 to go on1873 to show up1879 materialize1885 break1914 cook1932 to go down1946 c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus B. 3063 God, of whom procedeth al vertu and al goodnesse..hym sente a wyf of so greet discrecioun. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 360 Thy swevenes..procede of thi malencolie. c1450 (c1393) G. Chaucer Scogan 6 Allas, fro whennes may thys thing procede. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv Wherof procedeth to me grete solas and playsyre. ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Biiij Yf by your labour, procedeth more rychesse. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. A.i^v Wherby somtime it proceadeth that..customes..whiche at sometyme haue beene in price, becumme not regarded. a1628 F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady iv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 275 To giue all, and take nothing, proceeds of an vncaused goodnesse. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 Teach me the various Labours of the Moon, And whence proceed th' Eclipses of the Sun. View more context for this quotation 1737 Ld. Hervey Mem. II. 492 Imagining the Queen's pain to proceed from a goutish humour. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 Where deafness proceeds from an obstruction of the auditory duct, by wax. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 103 I shall believe our present religious Tolerancy to proceed from the abundance of our charity and good sense. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) iii. iii. 424 One-half of man's exertions, and more than one-half of his happiness, proceed from hope. 1889 F. C. Kolbe Minnie Caldwell iv. 30 Whatever ungentleness or unkindness she had shown.., had proceeded from thoughtlessness, not ungenerosity. 1926 D. S. Mirsky Contemp. Russ. Lit. vii. 311 Michael Zoshchenko..is..an ornamentalist, but his ornamentalism is a purely colloquial skaz, which proceeds from Leskov. 1959 Economist 3 July 42/1 Diversification may thus proceed from an overspill of strength in one department or another. 1990 R. H. Bork Tempting of Amer. 6 I dissented from a decision that seemed to proceed from sympathy rather than law. c. intransitive. To be descended or spring from (formerly †of) a parent, ancestor, or stock. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > be descended [verb (intransitive)] comeOE springa1200 ofspringc1300 to be descended (from, of)1399 to run of ——?a1400 descenda1413 proceed?a1439 issuea1450 to come downc1450 outspringa1547 decline1598 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 191 (MED) He tofforn hadde had aveseoun, How ther shold oon procedyn of his lyne Which sholde hym putte out of his regeoun. c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) 259 (MED) Blyssyd Ioachym..Of whom procedyd euyn naturally The most blessyd and glorious virgyn. 1520 Chron. Eng. iii. f. 27/2 Maria Cleophe the whiche was wedded to Alphe of whome proceded James the lesse. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 1 They were both of good birth, and proceeded of foure principal houses. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. v. 239 Eve, who..anomalously proceeded from Adam. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 381 Virgin Mother, Haile, High in the love of Heav'n, yet from my Loynes Thou shalt proceed, and from thy Womb the Son Of God most High. View more context for this quotation 1731 E. Aspinwall Apology ii. 57 As to the particular species of mankind, some were likewise of an opinion that it was without a beginning..some, that it..proceeded from some one first Primogenitor. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 117 We all proceed from the loins of Adam. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiii. 412 The inevitable result is that the modified descendants proceeding from one progenitor become broken up into groups subordinate to groups. 1869 Galaxy Sept. 315 To those who..believe that all varieties of the cow have proceeded from one original stock, it may be interesting to know that [etc.]. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. II. 563 The equivalent of the individual comatula is the hydrozoic stock plus all the Medusae which proceed from it. 1977 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 45 331 We are told that God saw both ẓaddiqim and reshaʿim proceeding from Adam′s descendants. 2. intransitive (also in prepositional passive). a. To begin and carry on an action or course of action, a piece of work, an investigation, etc.; to go about something, esp. in a particular way; to go about one's business. Frequently with reference to the manner with which the action, etc., is undertaken. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] workeOE doOE proceedc1390 movec1400 precedec1425 deal1470 plough furrow1597 walka1653 process1835 c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2531 Yow ne oghte nat sodeynly ne hastily proceden in this nede. 1423 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 110 (MED) If he [sc. the Rector] be nat present, þan þe Faculte of Phisyk and þe Crafte of Cirurgy procede as he were present. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 13 (MED) Þu dost þo dom in nam of þe kirke, feiþfully wilyng þe mendment of þe synnar..and due ordre procedand up þe gospel. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 107 (MED) He that wold in this arte procede, To eschew falshode he hath grete nede. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 5159 To holde A counsell..And procede on hor purpos. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxiiij The cause, why the Emperor proceded on thys wise against them. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xv Who thus proceeds, for aye in sacred mount shall raign. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 59 Matters also of private regard were there proceeded upon. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade 36 Every Nation does proceed according to peculiar Methods of their own in..Law-making. 1718 Free-thinker No. 27. 1 The True Philosopher must always proceed with a sober Pace. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 14 We can proceed with confidence, because we can proceed with intelligence. 1817 H. T. Colebrooke Algebra Notes & Illustr. p. xlii These facts will be further weighed upon as we proceed. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xviii. 166 Observations of such value, that without them they could not proceed in their researches. 1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) vii. 210 Science proceeds in far the majority of cases by trial of some theory as a working hypothesis. 1904 L. Steffens Shame of Cities 55 The man proceeded with his work quickly, surely, smilingly, without fear or pity. 1980 W. Golding Rites of Passage 138 I decided I must proceed on the principle of the use of least force. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 311 I like this fairly sharp and might well add another teaspoon of caper juice, but proceed cautiously. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Mar. a17/6 A man of discipline, he..proceeded on the belief that his charisma and differences in style with Mr. Kerry would be compelling once voters got to see them more. b. spec. To institute and carry on a legal action; to take legal proceedings, go to law (against, also formerly †upon a person). Also in early use occasionally in passive with it as subject. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)] pursue1389 suea1422 pleada1425 proceed1425 pleac1450 to wage one's (or the) law1455 to go to (the) law?a1513 to put at ——1534 to prosecute the law against (also upon)1535 law?a1550 to follow a suit1571 prosecute1611 to go to suit1690 litigate1726 1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 273/1 I offre me to entre ye matier of right in ye name of my said Lord or Warr', and so to procede to ye ende. 1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 12 In whiche sute in þe seyd court it is proceded ageyn þe seyd Adam. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 10 (MED) We aske of you þat it be procedid aȝenst him, as owith to be don aȝen a breker of þe lawe. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxii. 255 Yf ye wyll procede vpon Huon by iustyce. 1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 272 At the laufull denouncement and request of our vniuersall clergye..we proceeded against him. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 176 In such rule, that the Venetian law cannot impugne you as you doe proceed . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 315 Proceed by Processe, Least parties..breake out. View more context for this quotation 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 53 Direction, in what manner he should proceed against such as refused. 1798 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Mar. (1931) V. 106 I would not proceed against him for cutting my Wood. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 320 He had already..enjoined the bishops to proceed against all their clergy who did not observe the prescribed order. 1875 E. Poste tr. Instit. Gaius (ed. 2) iii. Comm. 405 A surety or guarantor of a debt may require the creditor to proceed against the principal first. 1912 Times 19 Oct. 5/4 No individual..shall be proceeded against or troubled in his person or property. 1958 Observer 10 Aug. 8/7 The Act..includes parish councils among the authorities empowered to proceed against litterers. 1997 Berlin of George Grosz (Royal Acad. of Arts Gallery Guide) 173 This print, together with two other images from Hintergrund, caused the authorities to proceed against Grosz and Herzfelde, the portfolio's publisher, for blasphemy. †c. To argue, debate, answer an argument. Also in passive with it as subject. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5502 (MED) Þei treten and procede Touchinge þe exile and proscripcioun..Þat þei caste for Amphymacus. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 208 (MED) As for answere and assoiling to the firste argument, y procede thus. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 565 (MED) Aȝens al this blamyng..it is procedid in othere placis of my writingis. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 120 Who proceeds with them on the supposition of a lost New Testament. d. With with. To treat or deal with a person, esp. judicially; to take action with regard to a person. Now rare. ΚΠ 1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. xvi. 117 If a man stand excommunicate aboue an whole yere, he may be proceeded with for suspicion of heresy. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xiv. 235 These men..ought not to be proceeded with, with such rigour. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 69 I will not hide My judgments, how with Mankind I proceed . View more context for this quotation 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 11 But how severely with themselves proceed The Men, who write such Verse as we can read? 1831 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 330 The party offending should not only be disfranchised, but otherwise proceeded with to the utmost rigour of the law. 1915 R. Sabatini Sea-hawk ii. xxiv. 338 It is my intention to proceed with him as is the manner of the sea with all knaves taken as Oliver Tressilian was taken. 3. intransitive. To go, move, or travel forward or onward, esp. after stopping or after reaching a certain point; to resume one's movement or travel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] nimeOE becomec885 teec888 goeOE i-goc900 lithec900 wendeOE i-farec950 yongc950 to wend one's streetOE fare971 i-wende971 shakeOE winda1000 meteOE wendOE strikec1175 seekc1200 wevec1200 drawa1225 stira1225 glidea1275 kenc1275 movec1275 teemc1275 tightc1275 till1297 chevec1300 strake13.. travelc1300 choosec1320 to choose one's gatea1325 journeyc1330 reachc1330 repairc1330 wisec1330 cairc1340 covera1375 dressa1375 passa1375 tenda1375 puta1382 proceedc1392 doa1400 fanda1400 haunta1400 snya1400 take?a1400 thrilla1400 trace?a1400 trinea1400 fangc1400 to make (also have) resortc1425 to make one's repair (to)c1425 resort1429 ayrec1440 havea1450 speer?c1450 rokec1475 wina1500 hent1508 persevere?1521 pursuec1540 rechec1540 yede1563 bing1567 march1568 to go one's ways1581 groyl1582 yode1587 sally1590 track1590 way1596 frame1609 trickle1629 recur1654 wag1684 fadge1694 haul1802 hike1809 to get around1849 riddle1856 bat1867 biff1923 truck1925 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] wadeOE agoOE forthganga1000 forthgoOE syeOE kenc1275 to-stepc1275 vaunce1303 forthnima1325 passc1330 throc1330 forthpass1382 to pass forthc1384 to carry forthc1390 proceedc1392 to go alongc1400 to be forthwardc1430 get) groundc1436 to set onc1450 avauntc1460 pretend1481 to make way1490 advance?1507 to get forward1523 promove1570 to rid ground (also space)1572 to rid (the) way1581 progressa1586 to gather grounda1593 to make forth1594 to make on1597 to work up1603 perge1607 to work one's (also its) way1609 to pass on1611 to gain ground1625 to make its way1645 vadea1660 propagate1700 to gain one's way1777 further1789 to pull up1829 on1840 to make (up) ground1921 c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 34 (MED) Rekne..from lettere D þat is grauen in his lytel cercle & procede in the same litel cercle to ward lettere E. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 6215 (MED) Forþe þei gan procede To þe temple wiþ þis large stede. ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 639 (MED) The Kyng, procedyng fforth on his way, Kome to the Conduyte. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 72 (MED) Late us take mary, our dowtere..and to þe temple with here procede. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hv^v Before we procede in our iourney. a1550 Sir A. Barton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 72 But up in haist he did prossed. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. xii. 2146/2 Making their prayers at the gresinges, they so proceded into the stalles. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. vi. 224 Then proceeding on their way, they finde an Arch. 1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 412 That the Lords &c: should proceede in their Coaches through the Citty for the more solemnity of it. 1743 J. Morris Serm. vii. 183 Elisha..did not procede on his intended journey. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 87 This intention of her's, to proceed for Lancashire. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 19 He certainly would not..have suffered the coachman to proceed while the horse was unfit for service. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 Accompanied by our guide, we proceeded to the glacier. 1890 T. Hardy in Bristol Times & Mirror 11 Jan. 9/1 She left the house, and, bundle in hand, proceeded at a trot along the lane. 1927 S. T. Warner Mr. Fortune's Maggot 29 He..proceeded (the word is more dignified than walked)..toward his clothes. 1959 G. L. Harding Antiq. Jordan vi. 124 The visitor must proceed either on foot or by horse into Petra itself. 1996 E. Danticat Caroline's Wedding in Krik? Krak! 166 A line of altar boys proceeded down the aisle, each carrying a long lit candle. 4. With emphasis on the progress or continuance of the action (cf. sense 2). a. intransitive. To continue or go on with what has been started; to advance from the point already reached, go further, pursue one's course; to go on after interruption, to renew or resume action or speech. Frequently with with.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] wadec1374 passc1387 proceeda1393 followa1400 to pass ona1400 to get forward1523 pace1597 step1599 to get on1655 to get along1768 to tide one's way1827 to come along1844 press1870 the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > behave towards ateec1000 leadc1175 makec1175 farec1230 beleadc1275 dightc1275 beseec1300 servec1300 treatc1374 usea1382 proceeda1393 demean1393 to deal witha1400 treatc1400 to do to ——a1425 entreat?a1425 handc1440 ferea1450 entertain1490 ray1509 to do unto ——?1523 tract1548 deal1573 to carry a strict (also severe, etc.) hand over (also upon, to)c1591 play1597 to comport with1675 to behave towards or to1754 usen1814 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > progress or advance to another action suea1200 goc1275 to pass forthc1384 proceeda1393 to go on1566 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 1025 Ther wist non what other mente, So that thei myhten noght procede. ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 635 Thow shalt haue strenth and myht, Forth to procede in large ffelicite. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) 103 Procedeth now forth in youre mater. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xix. 2 And Ionathas proceaded further, and sware vnto Dauid (he loued him so well). 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xvj^v Exhorting him to procede as he hath begonne. 1601 W. Watson Sparing Discov. 9 But what if these Fathers..haue proceeded further? 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia x. 74 I proceeded on with my trial. 1714 L. Theobald tr. Sophocles Electra ii. i. 19 If you still think me in the wrong, tho' I have Justice ne'er so much on my side, proceed with your Accusation against me. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 423 Presenting the matter at first with a seeming eagerness, but proceeding afterwards more remisly. 1835 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 7 47 Without such a collective name for the group, I found it impracticable to proceed with the work which I had engaged to complete. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 484 The Commons..refused to proceed with public business till their members were restored. 1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel iv. 96 He was one of those men that begin quietly and grow more angry as they proceed, their wrongs apparently working within them like yeast. 1940 R. Wright Native Son iii. 325 There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed. 1992 PC Computing Mar. 169/3 The system may recommend that you not defragment your drive again; ignore the recommendation and proceed with the defrag. 2002 Disability Now Nov. 14/4 We need advanced statements so that people can say what they want to happen if they are sectioned, what they want to happen to their treatment and how they want to proceed with their lives. b. intransitive. With infinitive as complement. To go on to do something.In later use frequently with the suggestion that the action specified is in some way unexpected or uncalled-for. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 622 (MED) I wol procede To speke upon Mathematique. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) i. l. 59 (MED) The licour of thy grace do shede Into my penne..þat I may procede Sumwaht to saye. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) v. xxii. 230 We shall not proceed to querie, what truth there is in Palmistrie. 1774 T. Warton Hist Eng. Poetry (1840) I. iii. 116 I therefore proceed to observe, that [etc.]. 1816 Times 5 June 3/2 The negroes first proceeded to demolish the overseers' houses; they then destroyed the sugar-pans. 1896 W. Harcourt Speech in Commons 29 July The hon. member made a speech last night in which he proceeded to involve himself in his own virtue. 1907 G. M. Norman Systematic Pract. Org. Chem. ii. 91 Examinations Questions... 1903... How would you proceed to make gun-cotton from cotton-wool. 1922 D. Lindsay Haunted Woman viii. 74 Having emptied his glass at a gulp, Roger pulled out a cigar, which he proceeded to cut and light with relish. 1996 Mail on Sunday 28 Apr. 78/6 The Muncheners, having hidden all the city's host of works of art in distant monasteries, then proceeded—using old plans and materials—to reconstruct the place precisely as it had been. 2003 Mojo Nov. 105/2 The leader..proceeded to make a Stratocaster do things Leo Fender surely had never dreamed of. c. intransitive. To continue or pursue a discourse (spoken or written). Also transitive: to go on to say (with direct speech as object, or parenthetically). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give information [verb (intransitive)] > continue or pursue one's discourse proceedc1395 c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 1019 I wol procede as now And telle forth my tale of the chanoun. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1463 (MED) Troie boke spekeþ of hym no more, But procedeth..How Horrestes cast hym for to quyte His fadres deth. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 71 (MED) How our lady was conseyvid and how she was bore, We passe ovyr þat..and so forth proced. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xiii. 52 I must procede, and shew of Arismetrik With divers nombres which I must reporte. 1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) vi. 72 + 6 Heirof as now I will na mair proceid. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 563 The conqueror is dismaid: proceed good Alexander. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 280 To proceed, the land of Egypt is highly renowned. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 27 Proceed, my Muse: Two Satyrs, on the ground, Stretch'd at his Ease, their Syre Sylenus found. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. vii. 38 Allworthy paused a Moment, and then proceeded: ‘I have talked thus to you,..to caution and strengthen you for the future.’ View more context for this quotation 1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story II. v. 87 He seemed to wait for her reply, but as she made none, he proceeded. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. x. 172 He paused, and then proceeded; ‘I do not intrude myself on your confidence [etc.] ’. View more context for this quotation 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 37 The Holy Sacraments, he proceeds, were frightfully profaned. 1932 Punch 23 Nov. 584/1 ‘As I was saying,’ Vincent proceeded, ‘after paying at the box-office I must have put the notecase into my overcoat-pocket instead of my coat-pocket, by mistake.’ 1991 Henry James Rev. Winter 39 Before I proceed, one caveat. In explaining why, psychologically, James resorts to fantasy, I may seem to be belittling him artistically. d. intransitive. To advance to another action, subject, etc.; to pass on from one point to another in a series or sequence of any kind (used also of the series, or of its terms or items). ΚΠ 1415 Choosing Mayor Norwich (Cleo. C.x) 50 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Behaven In procedyng to þis present eleccoun, be haueth ȝowe & rewle ȝow gudlie & honestlie. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 311 (MED) To my purpose I wyll anone procede; The trowthe to recorde, I wyll no lengor tary. 1520 Chron. Eng. i. f. 6/2 Of thes men is lytel wryten in scrypture and therfore I procede to other. 1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. D.ij Then shall the Bishop procede to the Communion. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2 I will begin with one of their toyes, and so proceed to greater matters. 1610 T. Campion New Way Counter-point sig. E6 The one part proceeding by degree, the other by leap. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. i. 3 Before I proceed on to what I have thought on this Subject. 1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 35 The Terms in the horizontal Row must be placed to proceed from the greater Indices to the lesser. 1825 C. Thirlwall tr. F. Schleiermacher Crit. Ess. Luke 168 The narrative proceeds from one incident to another, by the slightest connecting phrases. 1854 D. Brewster More Worlds xv. 221 From the globular clusters of stars our author proceeds to the binary systems. 1953 Trans. Soc. Instrument Technol. 5 126/2 The pilot unit is not usually constructed unless the manufacturer is satisfied that he will eventually proceed to the erection of a full-scale plant. 1996 Daily Tel. 7 June 23/2 Their routine was then intended to proceed with bravura tastelessness to a depiction of Jewish women arriving at the Nazi death camps and being singled out for the gas chambers. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 27 I was just saying it because that's what you say when someone says something like that. It's a burnt offering to the god of conversation; once out and said we could proceed with a grin to the next point. e. intransitive. To carry on an action or discourse to a particular point or stage; to make (some) progress; to advance (so far). Now rare.In later use passing into senses 2a and 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > to a certain point or stage proceed1560 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiiij^v When he had a litle proceded, he demaundeth of him in Latin, whether he wil kepe the Catholicke faith. 1643 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 492 The..rampier.., begun and considerablie proceeded in in ould time.., was this yeare recontinued. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 105 The treaty was so far proceeded in that it was near a perfection. 1708 C. Leslie Let. against Sacramental Test 25 They have been willing to come to Terms of Accommodation; and have so far proceeded as to center in the Pope as the Principium Unitatis. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §132 We again proceeded towards mooring the sloop. 1816 Monthly Mag. 41 124 Having so far proceeded in a strain of dictatorship, that some..may deem altogether presumptive. 1916 Englewood (Chicago) Times 28 Jan. Having proceeded so far successfully, she thought for an instant, trying to determine what her next move would be. Picking up the scissors she [etc.]. †f. intransitive. To achieve prosperity or advancement; to get on, to prosper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress furtherc1200 profit1340 to go alongc1400 to get forward1523 advance1577 proceedc1592 to take or make strides1600 to get on1655 to get along1768 to get ahead1807 to be well away1821 to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923 ramp1980 c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. iii This is the hour wherein I shall proceed; Oh, happy hour, wherein I shall convert An infidel. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. F2^v These things, when they proceed not, they goe backward. View more context for this quotation 1706 London Gaz. No. 4191/1 The French proceed but very slowly in the Siege of the Castle. 1777 S. Johnson Let. 18 Sept. (1992) III. 68 Invite Mr. Levet to dinner and make enquiry what family he has, and how they proceed. †5. transitive. To go on with, to cause to advance or progress; to carry on, carry forward. Obsolete.In passive used of legal proceedings. Cf. sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)] doeOE followOE holda1100 found1340 exercec1374 enhaunta1382 usea1398 proceed1399 apply?c1400 practise?c1430 exercise1467 takea1500 plya1513 enure1549 prosecute1567 inurea1577 manage1579 to stand on ——1599 to carry on1638 cultivate1654 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > carry on (of proceedings) [verb (intransitive)] proceed1399 1399 Rolls of Parl. III. 451/2 This Appel..was so grete and so hegh..And all bygone and proceded oute of the course of the commone Lawe, so that..it myght not wele be redressede no punissed bot by the Kyng. 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 441/2 Your saide Warde..besekes..yat in yis matier nothing be proceded nor putte in execution to his disheritance. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxiv. [cx.] 327 Then I began to wake, to procede this historye more than I dyd before. 1585 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 9 That nathing suld be procedit aganis hir be vertew thairof. 1779 J. Darrell Let. 25 Jan. in B. B. Oberg Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1990) XXVIII. 425 He is unable to proceed the Voyage with me. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 36 So that the man may only have to proceed, not to begin, the important task of learning to think and reason. 1817 W. Sewall Diary (1930) 20 Moved my desk and books home, into my chamber for the purpose of proceeding my studies. 6. Of an action, process, etc. a. intransitive. To take place, occur; to go on, be carried out; to take effect. Cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > go or proceed yernc900 proceed?a1439 to pass off1752 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed wharvec888 passa1393 proceed?a1439 stir1526 progress1600 to go on1735 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 3713 (MED) Noble Pryncis..Remembryng stories of antiquite, Afforn prouidyng that tresoun nat proceede, Beth ay most dreedful in prosperite. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 28 (MED) If þe law procede for me, be þe sentance of þe law I sall aw þe no thyng, for I ouercom þe. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 172 (MED) His iusticie procedith..to the confusion of theim þat cause the iniquityf wikednes. 1521 Town Clerk's Oath of Office in Maldon (Essex) Liber B lf. 57^v Ye shall truly write all siche procese as shall procede this yere betwix party and party. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A4(1) Secondly, that..you may generally know & learne what the countrey is, & therevpon consider how your dealing therein if it proceede, may returne you profit and gaine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 182 He will..tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to day. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 With Diligence the fragrant Work proceeds . View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 352 This Rule..proceeds and takes place when the Ambiguity thereof consists in some Points of Law alone. 1795 E. Fenwick Secresy II. ii. 16 Oh, Miss Ashburn! by that benignity which irradiates your every action I conjure you suffer it [sc. the marriage] to proceed! 1822 Times 20 May 3/2 The elections for renewing the Chamber of Deputies by a fifth are now proceeding with great activity. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 85 Forth I fared:..Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow. 1928 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 135 114/1 The upper states cannot allow any construction to proceed in the lower basin before the compact is ratified. 1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. 56 (caption) This reaction does not proceed unless the AMP formed is removed. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iii/6 Economic conditions have prevented work proceeding on tall structures in several other space-starved cities. b. intransitive. To go on or advance to a certain point or degree; to be carried on further; to continue, progress. Cf. sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation) fremec1000 furtherc1200 profit1340 to go onc1449 grow1487 to commence to, intoa1500 framea1529 to get ground?1529 movec1540 work1566 promove1570 advance1577 devolve1579 to come on1584 progress1612 to gain ground1625 germinate1640 proceed1670 to gather ground1697 march1702 to make its way1711 to come forward1722 develop1744 to turn a wheel1864 shape1865 come1899 the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > continue (of an action or operation) runOE to go fortha1382 to go or run on wheelsc1547 proceed1885 to wear on1886 1670 A. Marvell Let. 26 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 104 The two bills..are both yet proceeded no further then to a Commitment. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 122 To what a pitch..the depravity of the poet had proceeded. 1787 R. Burns Let. Feb. (2001) I. 94 My devotions proceed no farther than a forenoon's walk, a sentimental conversation, now and then a squeeze of the hand. 1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. iv. 89 The book is..hammered near the back edge, with such a peculiar movement of the left hand as causes the back to become rounded while the hammering proceeds. 1885 Law Times Rep. 53 466/2 The jury was discharged by consent, and the case proceeded before the judge alone. 1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 156 The Pantomime proceeds without further disturbance. 1934 R. Graves I, Claudius i. 15 It is myself writing as I feel, and as the history proceeds the reader will be the more ready to believe that I am hiding nothing. 1984 C. A. Vincent et al. Mod. Batteries 240 The current is high at the beginning of the charge, and falls off as the charging proceeds. 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Dec. 69/1 Fortunately, the show's palette broadens considerably as it proceeds through 10 of Poe's short stories and poems. 7. intransitive. Frequently with to or complement. a. To advance in a university course from a first degree to a second or higher one, or (formerly) to a first degree. Also: (in the Inns of Court) †to advance or be admitted to the status of a barrister (obsolete). Cf. graduate v. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (intransitive)] commencea1387 proceed1455 to pass master?1566 graduate1807 incept1852 to go out in the poll1889 to pass out1916 society > law > legal profession > practice law [verb (intransitive)] > be admitted as barrister to be called to the barc1545 proceed1640 to go to the bar1849 1455 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 77 (MED) I wol that the said ij prestis be seculers, bachelers of diuinite, or at the leste maisters of Arte, vertuose and wel disposed to lerne and for to procede in degree. 1479 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 645 I supposed..that þe Qwenys broder schold have procedyd at Mydsomer. 1536 Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 13 §5 Any person..which shal resorte to any of the sayde vniuersities to procede doctours in diuinitie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvii^v Althoughe I..haue not proceded to degre in the Vniuersitie. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1297/1 He proceaded Bachelour of Diuinitye in the sayde Vniuersitye of Cambridge. 1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 41 I am a scholler, and I haue proceeded maister in the seauen Liberall Sciences. 1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 131 After hee became student in the Temple, where he proceeded Barrester. a1645 W. Laud Diary in Hist. Troubles (1695) I. 1 I proceeded Batchelour of Arts, June 1594. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. ix. 28/2 His Eldest Son he maintained at the Colledge until he proceeded Master of Arts. 1755 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) II. 93 To take effectual measures to prevent those, who proceeded Bachelors of Arts, from having entertainments of any kind,..after the Commencement day. 1828 H. Gunning Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. (new ed.) 168 Between the two Congregations he [sc. a B.A. of 3 years' standing] visits the Vice-Chancellor..(Note. The practice of visiting is now discontinued. The Candidates for degrees ask the Vice-Chancellor leave to proceed as he is quitting the Senate-House.) 1879 M. Pattison Milton i. 8 In 1632, when he proceeded to his M.A. degree, Milton was twenty-four. 1893 Daily News 24 Mar. 5/3 The new Archdeacon was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, graduated B.A... in 1847, and proceeded M.A. in 1851, B.D. in 1856, and D.D. in 1860. 1913 Mod. Philol. 11 91 In 1576, the year that Spenser proceeded M.A. 1955 Times 11 Feb. 10/6 When the time came for him to proceed to the degree of D.Sc. in 1913 he had already turned to psychology. 1983 M. Cox M. R. James (1986) i. 2 Herbert proceeded to the degree of BA in 1847. 2001 C. Cross in R. Horrox & S. Rees Jones Pragmatic Utopias xv. 262 A long academic career, during which he proceeded MA, BTh and DTh and in 1539 as Cromwell's nominee was elected Master of Balliol. †b. In extended use: to advance to some status or function; to grow or develop into, to become (what is expressed by the complement). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become yworthOE worthOE goOE becomec1175 come?a1200 waxc1220 charea1225 aworthc1275 makea1300 fallc1300 breedc1325 grow1340 strikea1375 yern1377 entera1382 turna1400 smitec1400 raxa1500 resolvea1500 to get into ——?1510 waxen1540 get1558 prove1560 proceed1578 befall1592 drop1654 evade1677 emerge1699 to turn out1740 to gain into1756 permute1864 slip1864 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 67 That as you haue proued learned Philosophers, you will also proceede excellent diuines. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) Prol. in Wks. I. 5 To make a child, now swadled, to proceede Man. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. viii. 214 Shall a Plant take a new degree & proceed Sensible? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 Shooting out with Legs, and imp'd with Wings, The Grubs proceed to Bees with pointed Stings. View more context for this quotation 1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 224 After they were become Masters in the Law, they proceeded Rabbi or Doctor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1450v.c1380
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