proceed

[Pro*ceed·]

To proceed means to go or continue forward. But somehow "ready, set, proceed!" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

Verb
follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"

Verb
continue with one''s activities; "I know it''s hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

Verb
move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

Verb
follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"

Verb
continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"

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v. i.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

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

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

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

v. i.
To have application or effect; to operate.

v. i.
To begin and carry on a legal process.

n.
See Proceeds.


Proceed

Pro*ceed" v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.] [F. proc'82der. 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.
2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument. 3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
I proceeded forth and came from God.
It proceeds from policy, not love.
4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry.
5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]
He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
6. To have application or effect; to operate.
This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.

Proceed

Pro"ceed n. See Proceeds. [Obs.] Howell.

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

See Proceeds.

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Usage Examples

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

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Other Usage Examples

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

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