Undertake vs Proceed - What's the difference?
undertake | proceed |
(label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.
(label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
(label) To overtake on the wrong side.
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To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
*, Bk.VII:
*:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And he was not right fat, I undertake .
* (1665-1728)
*:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.
To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
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*:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue
(label) To assume, as a character; to take on.
:(Shakespeare)
(label) To engage with; to attack.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
(label) To have knowledge of; to hear.
:(Spenser)
(label) To have or take charge of.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Keep well those that ye undertake .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:who undertakes you to your end
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
* John Locke
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
* Shakespeare
To have application or effect; to operate.
* Ayliffe
To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between undertake and proceed
is that undertake is (label) to take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc) while proceed is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.undertake
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Usage notes
* Sense: To commit oneself. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * SeeDerived terms
* undertaker * undertakingproceed
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- to proceed on a journey.
- To proceed with a story or argument.
- Light proceeds from the sun.
- he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
- He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
- This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.