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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)