Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-GRESS', v.i.

1. To move forward in space; to pass; to proceed. Let me wipe off this honorable dew / That silvery doth progress on thy cheeks. – Shak. … Although the popular blast / Hath rear'd thy name up to bestride a cloud, / Or progress in the chariot of the sun. – Broken Heart, by Ford, vol. i. p. 303, Gifford's Ed. Lond. 1827. [These authors accent the first syllable, but the accent is now on the second.]
2. To proceed; to continue onward in course. After the war had progressed for some time. – Marshall. They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt. – Washington.
3. To advance; to make improvement. – Du Ponceau. Bayard.