1. proceed - Noun
2. proceed - Verb
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
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.
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.
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
To have application or effect; to operate.
To begin and carry on a legal process.
See Proceeds.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPractice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. Georges Bernanos
He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. Max Born
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Oriana Fallaci
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Richard Dawkins