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proceeder|prəʊˈsiːdə(r)| Also 6 procedar. [f. prec. vb. + -er1.] One who proceeds. 1. One who carries on some action, or acts in some particular way; an agent, doer.
1555H. Pendilton in Bonner Homilies 38 b, The impudente procedars haue taughte the zely people that euery man shoulde and may be a iudge of controuersyes. 1638Penit. Conf. (1657) 344 Which the Devil seeing, thought it seasonable to trip up the proceeders heels. b. One who carries on a legal process.
a1618Raleigh Rem. (1664) 257 Be thou [Christ] my speaker, taintless Pleader, Unblotted Lawyer, true Proceeder. 2. One who is proceeding to a university degree. ? Obs. (Cf. inceptor 1.)
1581Mulcaster Positions xli. (1887) 241 Are not the proceeders to reade in any of those sciences? 1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Caesar ii. v. 144 To tender unto Proceeders this Proposition, ‘The Pope Is Antichrist’. 1744Tanner Notitia Monast. Pref. 41 A little before the Reformation the greatest part of the proceeders in divinity at Oxford were monks and Regular canons. 3. One who advances or makes progress. (In 1596 transf. from 2.)
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. ii. 11 Bian. And may you proue sir Master of your Art. Luc. While you sweet deere proue Mistresse of my heart. Hor. Quiecke proceeders, marry. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Nat. in Men (Arb.) 159 The second will make him a smale proceeder thoughe by often prevaylinges. |