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||Pro`cat*arx"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; first beginning.] (Med.) The ||kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. ||Quincy.

||Pro`ce*den"do (?), n. [Abl. of the gerundive of L. procedere. see ||Proceed.] (Law) (a) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on ||insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by ||certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be ||proceeded in there. (b) In English practice, a writ issuing out of ||chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving ||judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment. (c) A writ by which ||the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having ||been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

Pro*ce"dure (?), n. [F. procÈdure. See Proceed.] 1. The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience." South.

2. A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures." I. Taylor.

3. That which results; issue; product. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pro*ceed" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.] [F. procÈder. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See Cede.] 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

If thou proceed in this thy insolence.

Shak.

2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.

I proceeded forth and came from God.

John viii. 42.

It proceeds from policy, not love.

Shak.

4. 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.

He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry.

Locke.

5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]

He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

Shak.

6. To have application or effect; to operate.

This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.

Ayliffe.

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

Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.

Pro"ceed (?), n. See Proceeds. [Obs.] Howell.

Pro*ceed"er (?), n. One who proceeds.

Pro*ceed"ing, n. 1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.