Procession
[prə'seʃ(ə)n] or [prə'sɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; 'processions were forbidden'.
Checker: Vivian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
(n.) That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
(n.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without.
(n.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
(v. t.) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.
(v. i.) To march in procession.
(v. i.) To honor with a procession.
Editor: Mamie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Train, CORTÈGE, turnout, retinue, CAVALCADE.
Edited by Bertram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue
ANT:Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout
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Definition
n. the act of proceeding: a train of persons in a formal march.—adj. Proces′sional pertaining to a procession: consisting in a procession.—n. a book of the processions of the Romish Church: a hymn sung during a procession esp. of clergy in a church.—n. Proces′sionalist.—adj. Proces′sionary.—ns. Proces′sioner (U.S.) a county officer in Tennessee and North Carolina whose duty it is to survey lands; Proces′sioning (U.S.) periodical survey and inspection of boundaries.—Procession of the Holy Ghost (theol.) the emanation of the Holy Spirit from the Father (single procession) or from the Father and Son (double procession).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a procession, denotes that alarming fears will possess you relative to the fulfilment of expectations. If it be a funeral procession, sorrow is fast approaching, and will throw a shadow around pleasures. To see or participate in a torch-light procession, denotes that you will engage in gaieties which will detract from your real merit.
Editor: Milton
Examples
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The festivities of a show began with a ceremonial procession (_pompa_) and a sham fight (_pr?lusio_). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But its sound had revived a long train of miserable Sundays, and the procession would not stop with the bell, but continued to march on. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Such a happy procession as filed away into the little dining room! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There was a moment of awful suspense as the procession waited for the Honourable Samuel Slumkey to step into his carriage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- One night, after receiving a satisfactory report of progress from Mr. Mason, superintendent of the cement plant, he said: The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If only we could look closelier, we should see through all these sixty centuries a procession of lives more and more akin in their fashion to our own. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Silence, melancholy bride of death, went in procession with him from town to town through the spacious region. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I soon discovered my mistake and found him to be train-bearer and organ-blower to a whole procession of people. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They still kept up this shaving procession as late as four or five years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We made quite a gay procession of it, and my child-wife was the gayest there. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Grand Holy Land Funeral Procession would have been better--much better. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The reflecting observer delights occasionally to shift the scenes of the present stage and bring to the front the processions of the past. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Some gazed on these processions with wild eagerness-- others fled timidly--some wept aloud. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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