'Procession' definitions:
Definition of 'procession'
From: WordNet
noun
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, rise, procession]
noun
The group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden"
noun
The act of moving forward (as toward a goal) [syn: progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion] [ant: retreat]
Definition of 'Procession'
From: GCIDE
- Procession \Pro*ces"sion\, v. t. (Law) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Procession'
From: GCIDE
- Procession \Pro*ces"sion\, v. i. To march in procession. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Procession'
From: GCIDE
- Procession \Pro*ces"sion\, v. i. To honor with a procession. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Procession'
From: GCIDE
- Procession \Pro*ces"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. processio. See Proceed.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. --Bp. Pearson. [1913 Webster]
- That the procession of their life might be
- More equable, majestic, pure, and free. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession. [1913 Webster]
- Here comes the townsmen on procession. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eccl.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without. --Shipley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. (Eccl.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling. --Shipley. [1913 Webster]
- Procession of the Holy Ghost, a theological term applied to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. --Shipley.
- Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions were made; Cross-week. --Shipley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'procession'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- caravan,
- cavalcade,
- chain,
- column,
- coming after,
- consecution,
- consecutiveness,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- cortege,
- course,
- cycle,
- descent,
- dress parade,
- extension,
- file,
- flyover,
- following,
- funeral,
- line,
- lineage,
- logical sequence,
- march,
- march past,
- motorcade,
- mule train,
- order,
- order of succession,
- pack train,
- parade,
- pomp,
- posteriority,
- postposition,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- promenade,
- review,
- rotation,
- run,
- sequence,
- series,
- skimmington,
- stream,
- string,
- subjunction,
- succession,
- successiveness,
- suffixation,
- train
Words containing 'Procession'
- In process,
- Process,
- Processioning,
- Processive,
- processed,
- processing,
- Barrel process,
- Basic process,
- Bell process,
- Bitumen process,
- Carbon process,
- Collodion process,
- Deacon's process,
- Direct process,
- Dongola process,
- Ensiform process,
- Final process,
- Flotation process,
- Gayley process,
- Gelatin process,
- German process,
- Harvey process,
- Jury process,
- Krupp process,
- Leblanc's process,
- Manhes process,
- Markoff process,
- Markov process,
- Mesne process,
- Niepce's process,
- Pattinson's process,
- Payne's process,
- Process milling,
- Process plate,
- Procession week,
- Pterygoid process,
- Reversible process,
- Styloid process,
- Thomas process,
- Thomson process,
- To serve a process,
- Triger process,
- Trustee process,
- Washoe process,
- Weldon's process,
- Zygomatic process,
- acheson process,
- acromial process,
- adiabatic process,
- alveolar process,
- background processing,
- batch processing,
- benday process,
- bessemer process,
- biological process,
- bodily process,
- body process,
- chemical process,
- cognitive process,
- compulsory process,
- condylar process,
- condyloid process,
- coronoid process,
- cyanide process,
- data processing,
- decoction process,
- due process,
- economic process,
- factorizing process,
- foreground processing,
- fractional process,
- geologic process,
- geological process,
- haber process,
- human process,
- industrial process,
- information processing,
- irreversible process,
- judicial process,
- linguistic process,
- list processing,
- mastoid process,
- mathematical process,
- mental process,
- metabolic process,
- mineral processing,
- natural process,
- odontoid process,
- olecranon process,
- ore processing,
- organic process,
- parallel processing,
- pathologic process,
- pathological process,
- peace process,
- photogelatin process,
- physical process,
- plant process,
- printing process,
- priority processing,
- process cheese,
- process of monition,
- process printing,
- processed cheese,
- processing time,
- psychoanalytic process,
- pyrochemical process,
- representational process,
- serial processing,
- service of process,
- social process,
- solvay process,
- stochastic process,
- surgical process,
- thought process,
- transverse process,
- unconscious process,
- vermiform process,
- word processing,
- xiphoid process,
- Procession of the Holy Ghost,
- Spinous process of a vertebra,
- administrative data processing,
- automatic data processing,
- basic cognitive process,
- business data processing,
- central processing unit,
- command processing overhead,
- coronoid process of the mandible,
- distributed data processing,
- dry plate process,
- due process of law,
- electronic data processing,
- higher cognitive process,
- information processing system,
- integrated data processing,
- natural language processing,
- process of foreign attachment,
- process-server,
- right to due process,
- semi-processed,
- stationary stochastic process,
- word processing system,
- Bell-Krupp process,
- Bower-Barff process,
- Dry-plate process,
- Siemens-Martin process,
- Taylor-White process,
- automatic data processing system,
- command processing overhead time,
- dutch-processed cocoa,
- haber-bosch process,
- list-processing language,
- natural language processing application,
- open-hearth process,
- real-time processing,
- remote-access data processing