2. Verb. (third-person singular of procession) ¹
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Definition of Processions
1. procession [v] - See also: procession
Lexicographical Neighbors of Processions
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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