Verb

(prepar)

To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.

* Bible, Psalms cvii. 36

that they may prepare a city for habitation

* Dryden

our souls, not yet prepared for upper light

To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

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)