Word Finder - processional

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A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.

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A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner.

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• procession

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A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.

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Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.

For once the Honda Cadet final was fairly processional with Sean Babington leading from lights to flag with Nick Evans in his wheel tracks.

Qualifying is so important at Hungaroring much the same as Monaco, because the race can be very processional with little chance of overtaking.

It is said that even rabbis would stop teaching when a wedding processional passed by to honor the couple.

He built temples, canals, defensive fortifications, the gateway of Ishtar, the great ziggurat and the sacred processional way in Babylon.

New vestments were devised to take the place, on less solemn occasions, of those hallowed by association with the holy sacrifice; thus the processional cope (q.v.) appeared in the 11th century and the surplice (q.v.) in the 12th.

All programs include a basic list of the order of the wedding processional and other events that will occur during the ceremony.

If you dream of having a magical wedding with the sound of crashing waves as your orchestra and the white sand as part of your processional, then the coast of Alabama may be a great place for you to check out.

There is usually a wedding processional with music, followed by readings, a message from the presiding official and an exchange of vows.

This entrance communicated with a corridor showing frescoes of a processional character.

He made also a processional way past the side of the temple to the cemetery beyond, with a great gateway of granite.

The chief actors in the ceremony were Augustus himself and his colleague Agrippa, - while, as the extant record tells us, the processional hymn, chanted by youths and maidens first before the new temple of Apollo on the Palatine and then before the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, was composed by Horace.

Their duties are chiefly processional, the junior or sub-bedel being the official attendant on the vice-chancellor, before whom he bears a silver mace.

At present funeral processions survive in general only in the country districts; the processional cross or crucifix is still carried.

The most common forms, however, are the processional litanies, and the solemn entry of clergy and choir into the church, which on festivals is accompanied by the singing of a processional hymn, their exit being similarly accompanied by the chanting of the Nunc Dimittis.

In this connexion the use of the processional cross, banners and lights has been largely revived.

Big Birds Build and decorate large processional birds while Airy Fairy make wind toys, weaving, knotting, threading and braiding.

The impression is of a gradually evolving slow processional.

Spirito are two paintings by Luca Signorelli, the "Crucifixion" and the "Day of Pentecost," originally intended for a processional banner.

The latter must have served as the processional entrance.