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Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..

By :: By (adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by..

Splendor :: Splendor (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like..

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..

Procession :: Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession.

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..

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..

Galilee :: Galilee (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger..

Way :: Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

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..

Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o

Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..

Procession :: 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..

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions..

Triumph :: Triumph (n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant..

Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

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