proceed

verb

1. (intransitive)To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.

   “to proceed on a journey”

   “Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".”

   “[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.”

2. (intransitive)To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

   “to proceed with a story or argument”

   “There the missionaries learned that they were to stay for a longer period, and they were lodged in a shed surrounded by rice fields. This was different from what they had expected, because they had been told in Canton that Father Ts’ai had arranged for a place in Hsiang-t’an. They therefore wished to proceed to Hsiang-t’an, but since that was impossible under the circumstances, they asked Liu Shêng-tuan to be their messenger to Father Liu asking him to come to them.”

3. (intransitive)To come from; to have as its source or origin.

   “Light proceeds from the sun.”

4. (intransitive)To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.

   “He that proceeds upon others Principles in his Enquiry into any Sciences, though he be reſolv’d to examine them and judge of them freely, does yet at leaſt put himſelf on that ſide, and poſt himſelf in a Party which he will not quit ’till he be beaten out; […]”

5. (intransitive)To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

   “And he will (after his ſowre faſhion) tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to day.”

6. (intransitive)To be applicable or effective; to be valid.

   “For it [this rule] only proceeds and takes place, when a Perſon cannot of common Right condemn or bind another by his Sentence; […]”

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

   ““Gentlemen, shall we proceed?” the judge said. From the beginning, Judge Fong appeared bored at Levine's coaxing remarks.”

8. (intransitive)To take an academic degree.