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▪ I. proceeding, vbl. n.|prəʊˈsiːdɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb proceed.
1. The action of going onward; advance, onward movement or course.
1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 41 At the procedyng owt of the..Chapell.., They Shewyd on to vs..&c. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 198 b, There is no suche mouynge or outwarde procedynge, as this example sheweth. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xiii. (1614) 114 Plinie, in the deriuation of water, requireth one cubit of declining, in 240 foot of proceeding. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. x. 50 In the proceeding of 200. foot forward, there should bee allowed one foot of descending. 1832Longfellow Brook 7 To me thy clear proceeding brighter seems, Than golden sands.
†b. A company of people marching along in regular order on a festive occasion; a procession.
1660England's Joy in Somers Tracts 4th Collect. (1751) II. 142 From this Tent the Proceeding was thus ordered, viz. First, The City Marshal..Next the Sheriffs Trumpets; then the Sheriffs Men in Scarlet Cloaks [etc.]. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5270/6 Those who formed the first part of the Proceeding,..came down in Solemn Procession. 1727Acc. Ceremonies Coronations 13 About 12 of the Clock the Proceeding begins to move.
2. The carrying on of an action or series of actions; action, course of action; conduct, behaviour: = procedure 1.
1553Brende Q. Curtius iv. 39 The Tyrians were as diligent to inuent all such thinges as might giue impediment to their proceding. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. lvii, For who observes strict Policies true Lawes, Shifts his Proceeding to the varying Cause. 1702Pepys Let. to Kneller in Diary, etc. (1879) VI. 238 My surprise, at the manner of my friend's proceeding with me. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Pref., We must make use of a cautious, I had almost said, a timorous, method of proceeding. 1816A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 192 This line of proceeding..will soon clear the list of such persons, of the description we are adverting to, as have any soul or feeling.
b. A particular action or course of action; a piece of conduct or behaviour; a transaction: = procedure 1 b. Most usually in pl.: Doings, actions, transactions.
1553Brende Q. Curtius vii. 140 b, The continuall felicitie he was wont to haue, in all his procedinges. 1641(title) The Diurnall Occurrences, or Dayly Proceedings of Both Houses, in this Great and Happy Parliament, From the third of November 1640, to the third of November 1641. 17..Swift (J.), From the earliest ages of christianity, there never was a precedent of such a proceeding. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. ix. 70, I..shall inform myself..of all your proceedings. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. i. 27 The law..stepped in to prevent a proceeding which it regarded as petty treason to the commonwealth.
c. pl. A record or account of the doings of a society; sometimes spec. a record of the business done, with abstracts or reports of the less important papers not included in the Transactions.
1830(title) Proceedings of the Royal Society. 1843(title) Proceedings of the Philological Society for 1842–43. 1904(title) Proceedings of the British Academy (vol. I.) 1903–04.
3. spec. The instituting or carrying on of an action at law; a legal action or process; any act done by authority of a court of law; any step taken in a cause by either party.
1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 66 Dischargis the..officiaris, of all arresting, atteching, unlawing, calling or proceding aganis the said George. 1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1592) 11 Think you some lawyers could be such purchasers, if al their pleas were short, and their proceedinges iustice and conscience? 1643Declar. Commons, Reb. Irel. 5 Proceedings were begun against the Papists, upon the Statute of 2 Eliz. 1830J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley (1833) II. 279 Having already as much law proceedings on his hands as he could manage. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 268 With these criminal proceedings were joined civil proceedings scarcely less formidable.
4. The action of going on with something already begun; continuance of action; advance, progress; advancement. Now rare.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. (1895) 267 To hym allone thy attrybute the begynnynges, the encreasynges, the procedynges, the chaunges, and the endes of all thynges. 1563Homilies ii. Idolatry iii. (1859) 213 The beginning, proceeding, and successe of idolatry. 1660Milton Pres. Means Wks. 1851 V. 457 When they shall see the beginnings and proceedings of these Constitutions propos'd.
b. The taking of a university degree; graduation.
1479W. Paston in P. Lett. III. 246, I understod that my moder and yow wold know what the costes of my procedyng schold be.
5. The action of coming forth or issuing from a place or source; egress; emanation.
1587Golding De Mornay v. (1592) 61 Then let them be inquisitiue..for the proceeding of the holy Ghost. 1877W. Bruce Comm. Rev. 97 Divine Truth in its going forth or proceeding bears witness to Divine Truth in its origin and Essence.
▪ II. proˈceeding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That proceeds; in quot., progressing, advancing.
1847Emerson in Atlantic Monthly (1892) June 742 The proceeding effects of electric telegraph will give a new importance to such arrangements. |