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 proceeding
 進行,程式,行動,訴訟程式,事項

 Pro·ceed v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.]
 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·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.
    The proceedings of the high commission.   --Macaulay.
 2. pl. Law The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
 Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings.
 Syn: -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction.
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 proceeding
      n : (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal
          judgments are invoked [syn: legal proceeding, proceedings]