1. To seek to enforce or to obtain by a legal process.
2. To conduct criminal proceedings in court against someone: "After using other people's credit card information to illegally get money from their accounts, Bernardo was prosecuted for robbery."
3. To follow up or carry something forward which was undertaken or started, usually to its completion: "The general wanted to prosecute the war until victory was achieved."
4. To carry on, or to practice, something with the idea of completing it.
5. To continue doing something, usually until it is finished or accomplished.
6. Etymology: from Latin prosecutus, past participle of prosequi, "follow after"; from pro-, "before, forward, forth" and sequi, "to follow".