Hypertext Webster Gateway: "proceeding"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Proceeded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Proceeding}.] [F. proc['e]der. fr. L. procedere,
processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to
move. See {Cede}.]
1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to
continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a
journey.

If thou proceed in this thy insolence. --Shak.

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

3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come
from; as, light proceeds from the sun.

I proceeded forth and came from God. --John viii.
42.

It proceeds from policy, not love. --Shak.

4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and
carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method;
to prosecute a design.

He that proceeds upon other principles in his
inquiry. --Locke.

5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]

He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath
proceeded worthy note to-day. --Shak.

6. To have application or effect; to operate.

This rule only proceeds and takes place when a
person can not of common law condemn another by his
sentence. --Ayliffe.

7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.

Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise;
emanate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Proceeding \Pro*ceed"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or
transaction; progress or movement from one thing to
another; a measure or step taken in a course of business;
a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a
violent proceeding.

The proceedings of the high commission. --Macaulay.

2. pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an
action at law. --Blackstone.

{Proceedings of a society}, the published record of its
action, or of things done at its meetings.

Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See {Transaction}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

proceeding
n : (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal
judgments are invoked [syn: {legal proceeding}, {judicial
proceeding}, {proceedings}]


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