The process or course of life, time, fate, etc. Also in plural.

The continuous process (of time), succession (of events); progress onward or through successive stages.

More generally: the onward course of something in space or time; succession or sequence of time, events, actions, etc. Cf. course, n. 17. Obsolete.

Onward movement in any process or course of action; progress, advancement. Cf. discourse, n. 2b.

figurative. The course of time or of events; the main course.

A succession of actions or occurrences. Obsolete. rare.