processionals

Noun

processional (plural processionals)

1. A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.
   • A perfectly drilled wedding procession, like a military one, should move forward in perfect step, rising and falling in a block or unit. To secure perfection of detail, the bars of the processional may be counted so that the music comes to an end at precisely the moment the bride and groom stand...1922, Emily Post, chapter 21, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, published 1923, pages 338–9
2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner.
   • He saw the processional of world brotherhood tramp steadily through the paling sunset; saffron-vestured Mandarin marching by flax-faced Norseman and languid South Sea Islander—the diverse peoples toward whom he had always yearned.1914, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Our Mr. Wrenn, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 46

   Synonyms:

   procession

3. A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
   • [47] Item that the Churchwardens of euery paryshe shall delyuer vnto our visitours the inuentories of vestmentes, copes, and other ornamentes, plate, bookes, and specyallye of Grayles, Couchers, Legendes, Processionalles, Hymnalles, Manuelles, Portuesses, and suche lyke apperteynyng to theyr Church.1559, Iniunctions geven by the Quenes Maiestie anno Domini MD.LIX, the fyrst yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lady Quene Elizabeth, London

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