Search the Dictionary

officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.

Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.

A person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South.

A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition. [Obs. or R.]

g events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. Shak.

ondition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding. South.

Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.

ated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north. North following. See Following, a., 2. -- North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. -- North preceding. See F…

Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of Asia.

to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.

stant nature of the thing known. Trendelenburg. Objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal -- what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual. S…

In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:

In progress; proceeding; as, a game is on.

tack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." Burke. "A very operose calculation." De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. -- Op"er*ose`ness, n.

The exercise of the power of choice; choice. Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile. Bacon.