Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-CED'URE, n. [Fr. See Proceed.]

1. The act of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; series of actions; as, the procedure of the soul in certain actions. But it is more generally applied to persons; as, this is a strange procedure in a public body. The motions of physical causes are more generally denominated operations.
2. Manner of proceeding; management; conduct. – South.
3. That which proceeds from something; produce. [Not in use.] – Bacon.