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Further, we know that nurture alone accounts for this remarkable splitting of one sex into two contrasted varieties I have little doubt that a process which is, at the very least, analogous, is possible amongst ourselves; nay more, that such a process is already afoot.

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  1. noun A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result: the process of digestion; the process of obtaining a driver's license.
  2. noun A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product: a manufacturing process; leather dyed during the tanning process.
  3. noun Progress; passage: the process of time; events now in process.

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  • The unwinding of the cocoons and the spinning of the cords--two for each bow--occupied the young men during the remainder of that first day and the whole of the second, for the process was a rather tedious and delicate one, in which Dick at least exhibited all the inaptitude of the novice. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
  • For a long time we concluded that the process was here finished, and that the appendix underwent no further spontaneous changes during life; but, after appendicitis became clearly recognized, a more careful study was made of the condition of the appendix in bodies coming to the post-mortem table, dead of other diseases, at all ages of life. —  Preventable Diseases
  • It may be generally said that the food which digests without the eater being aware in any way of the process is the best for him It may safely be affirmed in relation to this question of food in health, that the middle and upper classes eat quite too much. —  Papers on Health
  • The natural history of the process is here God does not hold the convicted transgressor to his own rash promise. —  The Parables of Our Lord
  • This process ought to be attended to by every distiller, and with all whiskey, and if carefully done, would raise the character, and add to the wholesomeness of domestic spirits It may be done by clarifying the singlings as it runs from the still--let the funnel be a little broader than usual, cover it with two or more layers of flannel, on which place a quantity of finely beaten maple charcoal, thro' which let the singlings filter into your usual receiving cask. —  The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, ;c.; ;c.; of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States
 

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  1. Middle English proces, from Old French, development, from Latin prōcessus, from past participle of prōcēdere, to advance; see proceed.
  2. Back-formation from procession.

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  1. Early modern English also proces, processe; from Middle English processe, proces, proses, from Old French proces, French procès = Spanish proceso = Portuguese Italian processo, from Latin processus, a going forward, progress, an appearance, an attack, a projection, lapse of time, from procedere, past participle processus, go forward, advance, proceed: see proceed.
  2. from process, n.
 

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