Proceed vs. Procced
Proceed vs. Procced
Test how “Proceed” and “Procced” look in your own writing.
Proceed
Term A(intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
Example: ‘To proceed on a journey.’;
(intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
Example: ‘To proceed with a story or argument.’;
(intransitive) To come from (have as the source or origin)
Example: ‘Light proceeds from the sun.’;
(intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
(intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
To begin and carry on a legal process. en
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
Example: ‘If thou proceed in this thy insolence.’;
To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
Example: ‘I proceeded forth and came from God.’; ‘It proceeds from policy, not love.’;
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.
Example: ‘He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry.’;
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
Example: ‘He will, after his sour fashion, tell youWhat hath proceeded worthy note to-day.’;
To have application or effect; to operate.
Example: ‘This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.’;
To begin and carry on a legal process.
See Proceeds.
continue with one's activities;
Example: ‘I know it's hard,’; ‘but there is no choice’; ‘carry on--pretend we are not in the room’;
move ahead; travel onward in time or space;
Example: ‘We proceeded towards Washington’; ‘She continued in the direction of the hills’; ‘We are moving ahead in time now’;
follow a procedure or take a course;
Example: ‘We should go farther in this matter’; ‘She went through a lot of trouble’; ‘go about the world in a certain manner’; ‘Messages must go through diplomatic channels’;
follow a certain course;
Example: ‘The inauguration went well’; ‘how did your interview go?’;
continue a certain state, condition, or activity;
Example: ‘Keep on working!’; ‘We continued to work into the night’; ‘Keep smiling’; ‘We went on working until well past midnight’;
begin a course of action
Example: ‘the consortium could proceed with the plan’;
do something after something else
Example: ‘opposite the front door was a staircase which I proceeded to climb’;
(of an action) carry on or continue
Example: ‘my studies are proceeding well’;
start a lawsuit against someone
Example: ‘he may still be able to proceed against the contractor under negligence rules’;
move forward
Example: ‘from the High Street, proceed over Magdalen Bridge’;
advance to a higher rank, status, or education
Example: ‘he did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year’;
originate from
Example: ‘his claim that all power proceeded from God’;
Procced
Term Bsimple past tense and past participle of proc
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