Definition of procession

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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..

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Processional :: Processional (a.) Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
Processioner :: Processioner (n.) A manual of processions; a processional.
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen..
Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..
Procession :: Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession.
End :: End (n.) Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence..
Way :: Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
Pomp :: Pomp (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
Morris :: Morris (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters..
Procession :: Procession (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..
Torchlight :: Torchlight (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession..
Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Baldachin :: Baldachin (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession..
Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..
Processionary :: Processionary (a.) Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service..
Talipot :: Talipot (n.) A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper..
Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc..
Triumph :: Triumph (n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant..
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