Word Finder - procession

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The act of progressing or proceeding.

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A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.

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a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession

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A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).

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(in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.

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To take part in a procession.

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To honour with a procession.

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(North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

The procession was very imposing.

He was too angry to watch the procession leave.

Behind them followed a long procession of the women of Rome.

There was a festal procession thence annually to the ancient temple.

A church procession was coming up the hill from Borodino.

The same symbolism is intended by the lighted tapers which must accompany the Host whenever it is carried in procession, or to the sick and dying.

The first procession or emanation, as above indicated, is the realm of ideas in the Platonic sense, the word or wisdom of God.

Even in Upper Egypt a few decades ago, there was a tomb of the Mahommedan sheikh Heridi, who - it is alleged - was transformed into a serpent; in cases of sickness a spotless virgin entered the cave and the serpentoccupant might permit itself to be taken in procession to the patient.

Roman emperors vied with wealthy natives in lavish gifts, one Vibius Salutaris among the latter presenting a quantity of gold and silver images to be carried annually in procession.

The procession on this day was introduced by Pope Sergius I.

He reached London on the 29th, his thirtieth birthday, arriving with the procession, amidst general rejoicings and " through a lane of happy faces," at seven in the evening at Whitehall, where the houses of parliament awaited his coming, to offer in the name of the nation their congratulations and allegiance.

The ceremony comprised a procession in which the members of the Holy Office, with its familiars and agents, the condemned persons and the penitents took part; a solemn mass; an oath of obedience to the inquisition, taken by the king and all the lay functionaries; a sermon by the Grand Inquisitor; and the reading of the sentences, either of condemnation or acquittal, delivered by the Holy Office.

The Eastern theologian thinks that the Western double procession degrades the Deity and destroys the perfection of the Trinity.

The double procession, in his eyes, means two active principles (airiat) in the Deity, and it means also that there is a confusion between the hypostatical properties; a property possessed by the Father and distinctive of the First Person is attributed also to the Second.

In Late Latin processio is generally used of a religious procession, the word having come to be used of the body of persons advancing or proceeding.

Connected with the triumph was the pompa circensis, or solemn procession which preceded the games in the circus; it first came into use at the ludi roman, when the games were preceded by a great procession from the Capitol to the Circus.

Such were those of the Ambarvalia, Robigalia, &c., which were essentially rustic festivals, lustrations of the fields, consisting in a procession round the spot to be purified, leading the sacrificial victims with prayers, hymns and ceremonies, in order to protect the young crops from evil influences.

Here the Grail is wrought of gold richly set with precious stones; it is carried in solemn procession, and the light issuing from it extinguishes that of the candles.

On the 1st of October 1895 a number of Armenians, some armed, went in procession with a petition to the Porte and were ordered by the police to disperse.

The streets were all decorated by them and a huge procession wended its way to the convent, led by the archbishop himself.

Children in the procession said they enjoyed the event as much as making their colorful costumes.

At the funeral of Lord Nelson in January 1806 Captain Bayntun bore the guidon in the water procession from Greenwich Hospital.

The Esquire Bedell bears the mace in the Queenâs academic procession.

The coffin is usually brought into the chapel followed by the mourners in procession.

Within minutes three soldiers led a procession of six Chinese males.

All the people for miles around joined the procession.

The State shaman did not accompany the procession downstream, leaving the escort of the spirit rafts with their grisly freight to his assistant.

Then, entered, or exited, should I say, the solemn procession of the Choir to the crossing.

We parked and joined the bridal procession forming up behind the fiddler outside the farm gate.

All the pilgrims in Lourdes are invited to come together for a torchlight procession, singing along.

A Word From The Chairman Rye Bonfire and torchlit procession has become one of the great family events in the local calendar.

The church officers organize the offertory procession and take the collection, these are ministries of service to the whole parish family.

Held during the sixth full moon of the lunar calendar, it involves chanting, sermons and a candlelit procession to the wat.

A daimyo procession placed in the center, the composition of this picture is symmetrical.

The main event is the carnival procession which takes place annually on the last Saturday of September.

View from underneath the bridge over the Yahagi River, across which a daimyo's procession is passing.

The most treasured item in the procession is a copy of a golden reliquary said to hold a tooth of the Buddha.

In its descriptions of the various courts on their way to the palace, and of the poet's adventures - first, when he incautiously slanders the court of Venus, and later when after his pardon he joins in the procession and passes to see the glories of the palace - the poem carries on the literary traditions of the courts of love, as shown especially in the "Romaunt of the Rose" and "The Hous of Fame."

As yet the stress was laid on reverence for the Holy Sacrament as a whole; there is no mention in Urban's bull of the solemn procession and exposition of the Host for the adoration of the faithful, which are the main features of the festival as at present celebrated.

In England occasional breaches of the law in this respect have been for some time tolerated, as in the case of the Corpus Christi procession annually held by the Italian community in London.

As appears from his letters to his father, he watched with exultation the procession of deputies at Versailles, and with violent indignation the events of the latter part of June which followed the closing of the Salle des Menus to the deputies who had named themselves the National Assembly.

The Greek Church rejects as heretical, because contrary to the teaching of the first seven ecumenical councils, the Roman dogmas of the papacy, of the double procession of the Holy Ghost, the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, and the infallibility of the Pope.

Not the least of his achievements on this occasion was the successful attempt, made with extraordinary tact, ability, knowledge and perseverance, to induce the Orientals, Anglicans and Old Catholics present to accept a formula of concord, drawn from the writings of the leading theologians of the Greek Church, on the long-vexed question of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

A court of claims sat and a steward was appointed for the coronation of Edward VII.; and during the procession in Westminster Abbey the duke of Marlborough, as steward, carried "St Edward's crown" in front of the bearer of the Bible (the bishop of London), who immediately preceded the king; this function of the steward is of modern origin.

The steward's ancient and particular services at coronations are practically obsolete; the full ceremonies, procession from Westminster Hall and banquet in which he figured prominently, were abandoned on the accession of William IV.

The next day, Frederick William, with characteristic histrionic versatility, was heading a procession round the streets of Berlin, wrapped in the German tricolour, and extolling in a letter to the indignant tsar the consummation of the glorions German revolution.

On the last day, which should be that terminating with the eve of Friday, or of Monday, the bride is taken in procession to the bridegrooms house, accompanied by her female friends, and a band of musicians, jugglers, wrestlers, &c. As before stated, a boy about to be circumcised joins in such a procession, or, frequently, a succession of such boys.

In doctrine the Roman Catholic Church is divided from the orthodox communions of the East mainly by the claims of the papacy, which the Orientals reject, and the question of the " Procession of the Holy Ghost " '(see' Church History).

In England the people are free to assemble as they please, to march in procession through the streets, to gather in open spaces, to listen to the harangues, often forcibly expressed, of mob orators, provided always that no obstruction is caused or that no disorder or breach of the peace is threatened.

The second part enters upon the history of the crusade itself, and tells how Joinville pledged all his land save so much as would bring in a thousand livres a year, and started with a brave retinue of nine knights (two of whom besides himself wore bannerets), and shared a ship with the sire d'Aspremont, leaving Joinville without raising his eyes,"pour ce que le cuer ne me attendrisist du biau chastel que je lessoie et de mes deux enfans"; how they could not get out of sight of a high mountainous island (Lampedusa or Pantellaria) till they had made a procession round the masts in honour of the Virgin; how they reached first Cyprus and then Egypt; how they took Damietta, and then entangled themselves in the Delta.