proceed

verb

• 1begin a course of action:the consortium could proceed with the plan
• [with infinitive] do something after something else:opposite the front door was a staircase which I proceeded to climb
• (of an action) carry on or continue:my studies are proceeding well
• Law start a lawsuit against someone:he may still be able to proceed against the contractor under negligence rules

• 2 [no object, with adverbial of direction] move forward:from the High Street, proceed over Magdalen Bridge
• British dated advance to a higher rank, status, or education:he did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year

• 3originate from:his claim that all power proceeded from God