Procedure

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late 16th century: from French procédure, from procéder (see proceed).

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From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere(“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

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procedure (n.)

1610s, "fact or manner of proceeding;" 1670s, "particular action or mode of conducting an action;" from French procédure "manner of proceeding" (c. 1200), from Old French proceder "to proceed" (see proceed). Specific sense of "method of conducting business in Parliament" is from 1839.