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.
...
