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[ Gr.prokatarktikos -beginning beforehand; prokatarchō = to begin before: pro before; kata, used intensively, and archo =to begin.] Pathol.: Preexistent or predisposing. Applied to causes, whether contingent, violent, or fortuitous, which give occasion to health or to the gener ation of disease. This writ is, how ever, rarely resorted to, the remedy by mandamus being preferable."- Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 4. 2. A writ by which the commi ion of the justice of the peace is revived after having been suspended. pro-çed-ure, s. [Fr., from procéder =to proceed (q. v.).] *1. The act of proceeding or going forward; progre , advancement. "The better procedure of real and material religion." Bp . Taylor: Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 7. 2. Manner of proceeding or acting; course or line of action; conduct, proceeding. "The act of the will, in each step of the forementioned procedure, does not come to pa without a particular cause."- Edwards : On the Will , pt. ii., § 6. 3. A step taken; an act performed; an action, a proceeding. *4. That which proceeds from something; a product. pro-çeēd', *pro-cede, *pro-ceede, v . i . [French procéder , from Lat. procedo to go before: pro = before, and cedo =to go; Sp. & Port. proceder ; Ital. procedere.] 1. To pa , move, or go forward or onward; to advance, to go on; to pa from one place to another; to continue or renew motion. "Here unmolested, through whatever sign The sun proceeds , I wander." Cowper: Task , vi. 2. To i ue or come forth, as from an origin or source; to arise; to be the effect or result of; to be produced from or by something; to have or take origin. "He hath forced us to compel this offer: It proceeds from policy, not love." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., iv. 1. another. 3. To pa from one point, topic, or stage to "To proceed at once to judgment and execution." Black stone : Comment . , bk. iii., ch. 10. *4. To go on; to continue. "If thou proceed in this thy insolence." ose of tera, as the Apiarese, the pharynx of the Errant Annelids, the retractile oral organ of Gephyræa, the preoral organ of Plan arid a, the central polypite of Medusæ, . 2. Fig .: The human nose. (Used ludicrously or in humor.) proboscis-monkey, s . [KAHA.] Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . I. , 1. 3. 5. To carry on a series of actions; to act accord certain way and for some particular purpose. 6. To take steps; to set to work. "The king proceeded to make his arrangements."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xix. 204 7. To continue, as a narrative, .; to resume. "But, without further bidding, I will proceed." Words worth: Excursion, bk. i. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; procellariidæ 8. To begin and carry on a legal action; to take legal action; to carry on judicial proce . *9. To act. ( Milton : P. L. , xi. 69.) *10. To be transacted or carried on; to be done; to happen; to take place. "He will tell you what hath proceeded ." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, i. 2. *11. To be propagated; to come by generation; to spring. ( Milton : P. L., xii. 381.) *12. To take effect; to come into effect or action; to obtain. "This rule only proceeds and takes place, when a person cannot of common law condemn another by his sentence."- Auliffe . Parergon. *pro-çeēd, *pro-cede, s . [PROCEED, v .] Proceeds, result. "The only procede (that I may use the mercantile term) you can expect is thanks."-Howell: Letters, bk. i., § 1, let. 29.