Process
King James Dictionary [1]
PROC'ESS, n. L. processus, from procedo. See Proceed.
1. A proceeding or moving forward progressive course tendency as the process of man's desire. 2. Proceedings gradual progress course as the process of a war. 3. Operations experiment series of actions or experiments as a chimical process. 4. Series of motions or changes in growth, decay, &c. in physical bodies as the process of vegetation or of mineralization the process of decomposition. 5. Course continual flux or passage as the process of time. 6. Methodical management series of measures or proceedings.
The process of the great day--is described by our Savior.
7. In law, the whole course of proceedings, in a cause, real or personal, or criminal, from the original writ to the end of the suit. Original process is the means taken to compel the defendant to appear in court. Mesne process is that which issues, pending the suit, upon some collateral or interlocutory matter. Final process is the process of execution. 8. In anatomy, any protuberance, eminence or projecting part of a bone.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
(2): ( n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
(3): ( n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
(4): ( n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
(5): ( n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
the formal act, instrument, bull, or enict of canonization (q.v.) in the Romish Church.
