processional
A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.
Adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.
- The publick Processional-way to the Chapter-house at Windesor, used time out of mind, led from the Presence-Chamber, down through the Cloister, and the great Gate of the Kings Lodging, into the upper Ward of the Castle,...
- 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura, Book 4, in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., pp. 170-171, The nuptial day arrives. The virgin, preceded by a splendid retinue, and...
- The mediæval hierarchical services did not rise to their full majesty and impressiveness till celebrated under a Gothic cathedral. […] The enormous height more than compensated for the contracted breadth. Nothing could...
Origin
Etymology tree English procession Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English processional From procession + -al.
Derived
Noun
- 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...
- […] a rainy Palm Sunday. […] At Grace Church on-the-Hill, the children and the acolytes stood huddled in the narthex; holding their palm fronds, they resembled tourists who’d landed in the tropics on an unseasonably...
- 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...
- And Eugene watched the slow fusion of the seasons; he saw the royal processional of the months; he saw the summer light eat like a river into dark; he saw dark triumph once again; and he saw the minute-winning days,...
- At the Wusdatts’ once, the two had marched in the processional to the buffet table with their small fingers linked […] - 1973, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in Forever Panting,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 111:
Synonyms: procession
- 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,...
- c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned...