Verb

(occurr)

To happen or take place.

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}

To present or offer (itself).

(label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).

* 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,

Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]

(label) To be present or found.

Verb

(en verb)

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.

to proceed on a journey.

To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

To proceed with a story or argument.

To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.

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.

* John Locke

he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry

To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

* Shakespeare

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

To have application or effect; to operate.

* Ayliffe

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. (rfex)