proceed from


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proceed from

1. To leave or depart from some location. If you proceed from the train station for one mile, you should reach an intersection beside a large apple tree.
2. To originate, stem, or have developed from something. Most of the company's financial woes proceeded from a particularly unfortunate corporate takeover in the early '90s, which saddled them with massive amounts of debt.
See also: proceed

proceed from

v.
1. To set out or embark from some place: We proceeded from the bus station toward our hotel.
2. To have something as an origin or cause; have developed from something: Most of our mistakes proceed from carelessness.
See also: proceed
References in classic literature ?
For, in the first place even the principle which I have already taken as a rule, viz., that all the things which we clearly and distinctly conceive are true, is certain only because God is or exists and because he is a Perfect Being, and because all that we possess is derived from him: whence it follows that our ideas or notions, which to the extent of their clearness and distinctness are real, and proceed from God, must to that extent be true.
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All vehicular Traffic approaching Old Exhibition via Shahra-e-Quaideen (except those arriving for participating or Ziyarat in the procession i.e essential service vehicles) shall not be allowed to proceed from the intersection of Shahra-e-Quaideen/ society Light Signal.
Similarly all vehicular, Traffic proceeding towards Saddar Via M.A.Jinnah road side shall not be permitted to proceed from its junction with Preedy Street and Agha Khan road/Mansfield street.
Administration made traffic arrangments for Chup Tazia
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