procession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsɛʃən/
Forms: form: processions
Etymology: From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.
Senses: examples: text: From whence it came to pass in the primitive times , that the Latin fathers taught expressly the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
text: Yet proof is here of men's unquenched desire / That the procession of their life might be / More equable majestic pure and free; […]
ref: 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Same Continued”, in The Story of Justin Martyr, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: The act of progressing or proceeding.
examples: text: a procession of mourners
text: the Lord Mayor's procession
text: Here comes the towneſ-men, on Proceſſion, / To preſent your Highneſſe with the man.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 126, column 2:
text: By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter I, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 7:
text: The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […]
ref: 1914, Westways, volume 6, page 7:
glosses: A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
glosses: A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
examples: text: In many a form I see thee oft
In myriad manners are thy praises told
In old processions carved on Grecian urns
ref: 1894, Orby Shipley, Carmina Mariana:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
examples: text: Before he closed and opened his eyes, the bails on the wicket behind Johnny Masih were shattered. That was the beginning of a procession. The second ball clean bowled the batsman. The third ball was a catch for the wicketkeeper.
ref: 2012, K. L. Mohana Varma, Cricket-Indo: The Story of an Indo-Pak One-Day Cricket Turf War, page 205:
text: Scotland moved nicely to 45 without loss before I took the first wicket and then it became a procession.
ref: 2015, Steve Dolman, Edwin Smith: A Life in Derbyshire Cricket, page 36:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
Derived terms: double procession
eternal procession
funeral procession
processional
processionary
processionism
single procession
Related terms: procedure
proceed
process
-cade
cavalcade
cortege
flypast
march-past
motorcade
parade