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/prəsˈidʒər/ /proʊsˈidʒər/ Listen

noun

Procedure n.

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience."

A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures."

That which results; issue; product. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Procedure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Procedure" Quotes from Famous Books

... introduced a bill providing for a complete new code of criminal procedure. It had been referred to the appropriate committee and in due time it made its report. I still can see the committee chairman, a country doctor, as he stood and shook a long finger at the members before him, saying: "Mr. Speaker, ...

— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock

... adequate to make the journey to Mars. Actually they were more than a third of the way there, already. He wasn't sure why he felt so certain something was amiss. Surely there was no possibility that the great Connemorra Lines would plan any procedure to the detriment of the more than five thousand passengers aboard the ship. His uneasiness was pretty ...

— The Memory of Mars • Raymond F. Jones

... itself ); or that The ponderous bodies which be under earth Do all press upwards and do come to rest Upon the earth, in some way upside down, Like to those images of things we see At present through the waters. They contend, With like procedure, that all breathing things Head downward roam about, and yet cannot Tumble from earth to realms of sky below, No more than these our bodies wing away Spontaneously to vaults of sky above; That, when those creatures look upon the sun, ...

— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius

... the more refined methods of present-day thought, Hooke's procedure may strike us as somewhat primitive. Actually he did nothing more than has since been done times without number; for the scientist has become more and more willing to allow artificially evoked sense-perceptions to dictate the thoughts he uses in forming a scientific ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... psychology required by the criminalist. No doubt crime is an objective thing. Cain would actually have slaughtered Abel even if at the time Adam and Eve were already dead. But for us each crime exists only as we perceive it,—as we learn to know it through all those media established for us in criminal procedure. But these media are based upon sense-perception, upon the perception of the judge and his assistants, i. e.: upon witnesses, accused, and experts. Such perceptions must be psychologically validated. The knowledge of the principles of this validation demands again a ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

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