procede

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A form of proceed — To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.

UncommonScrabble 12

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verbprocede (third-person singular simple present procedes, present participle proceding, simple past and past participle proceded)

present singular third person procedes · participle present proceding · participle past proceded · past proceded

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of proceed.

    […] thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excerciſes done booth in houſe and publike ſcholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie, […]

    1582, W. Allen, Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom, sig. d3
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    [T]here is no thynge with outt a man that can diffyle hym when hitt entreth in to hym⸝ but thoo thyngꝭ [things] which procede out of a mã [man] are thoſe which defyle a mã.

    1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Marke vij:[15], folio liiij, recto

    For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene.

    1562, Damiano da Odemira, translated by Iames Rowbothum, The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts Renewed, with Instructions Both to Learne It Easely, and to Play It Well, London, page A7v
  2. misspellingMisspelling of proceed.

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