process, proces, processe

[Fr. procès, from Latin proce um, acc us. of proce us a progre ; prop. pa. par. of procedo =to proceed (q. v.); Sp. proceso; Ital. & Port. proce o.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act or state of proceeding or moving forward; progre ive course; progre . "Any longe proce e of the mater."-Fabyan: Chronicle, vol. in. (an. 1395). 1. Theol .: The noun proce ion is not found in Scripture, it was, however, legitimately framed by theologians from the verb occurring in John xv. 26, "The Spirit of truth. which proceed eth from the Father." There is no similar pa age categorically stating proce ion from the Son, and the question arises, can equivalent language be found? If the words in John xiv. 26, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name," imply the proce ion of the Holy Ghost, so do those in xv. 26, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father," and there is a Proce ion of the Holy Ghost from the Son as well as from the Father, if they are not equivalent there is no proce ion from the Son. (Cf. Gal. iv. 6.) 2. Church Hist.: The clause "filioque" [NICENE CREED], implying proce ion from the Father and the Son, being accepted in the West while rejected in the East, was one potent cause of the ultimate separation between the Greek and Latin Churches. [GREEK-CHURCH.] The clause was accepted by the Reformed Churches and by Noncom for mists gener ally, and appears in the Presbyterian Confe ion of Faith (ch. ii., § 3). proce ion-flower, s. Bot.: Polygala vulgar is. pro-cěs-sión ( as sh), v. i. & t. [PROCESSION, 8.] A. In trans.: To go in proce ion. B. Trans.: To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of; as lands. *pro-cěs-sion-āde ( as sh), s. [Eng. proces sion , s.; -ade .] A proce ion. "Proclaim a grand proce ionade ," Church ill: Ghost, iii.