Definition of Processions

1. Noun. (plural of procession) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of procession) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Processions

1. procession [v] - See also: procession

Lexicographical Neighbors of Processions

processibility
processible
processing
processing time
procession
processional
processional march
processionalist
processionalists
processionally
processionals
processionaries
processionary
processioned
processioning
processions (current term)
processive
processively
processivities
processivity
processome
processor
processors
processual
processualism
processualist
processualists
processus coronoideus
processwide
prochain

Literary usage of Processions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"In his regular or extraordinary processions umi iiu-bniu- through the capital, he unveiled his person to the processions ° . public view : the rites or ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Mayors can even forbid the presence in funeral processions of priests ... A mayor can prohibit processions in his commune simply on the formed by the ..."

3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"Here stands a man during tlie processions, working the colossal head backward and ... In the processions the figure of Antigonus is preceded by two men, ..."

4. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1904)
"There is no doubt that from an early period of the Middle Ages the religious processions gave rise to the use of masks. Little angels accompanied the ..."

5. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by George Gatfield (1892)
"A Faithful Account of the processions and Ceremonies of the Kings and Queens of ... Accounts of Sixty Royal processions and Entertainments in the City of ..."

6. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1825)
"They built schools, and provided, ORANGE processions—PETITION OF MR. LAWLESS.] Sir Janet Mackintosh said, he held in his band a petition from Mr. John ..."

7. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"processions in Public in the fifth and sixth Months very numerous. ... —Preparations for processions in their honor.—Paper Boats.—Happy Bucket. ..."

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