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)

Verb

(deriv)

To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

(logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.

(linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).

(chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.

To originate or stem (from).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= How to Be Manipulative , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.

* (and other bibliographic details) Holland

For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.