proceed

mastery
UK /pɹəˈsiːd/ US /pɹəˈsid/verb

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Which meaning of 'proceed' best matches its use in the sentence?

He that proceeds upon others Principles in his Enquiry into any Sciences, though he be reſolv’d to examine them and judge of them freely, does yet at leaſt put himſelf on that ſide, and poſt himſelf in a Party which he will not quit ’till he be beaten out; […]