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processional
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Processional \Pro*ces"sion*al\, n. [F. processionnal, LL. processionale.]
(R. C. Ch.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
--J. Gregory.A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
Processional \Pro*ces"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
The processional services became more frequent.
--Milman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"book of hymns for use in processions," mid-15c., from Medieval Latin processionale, from noun use of neuter of processionalis "pertaining to a procession," from Late Latin processio (see procession).
"pertaining to a procession or processions," 1610s, from procession (n.) + -al (1).
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession n. 1 A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion 2 (context Roman Catholicism English) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
WordNet
adj. intended for use in a procession; "processional music"; "processional cross"
of or relating to or characteristic of a procession; "in good processional order"
n. religious music used in a procession [syn: prosodion]
Wikipedia
Processional: A Jazz Symphony of American Life ( 1925) is a four- act modernist comedy by the American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre in New York, opening on January 12, 1925 in a two-month run. Philip Moeller directed while Mordecai Gorelik designed the sets and costumes. Lee Strasberg played the minor role of First Soldier in the production; Sanford Meisner, too, played a minor part. It was revived in 1937 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
A Processional is anything of, and or pertaining to a procession.
Processional may also refer to:
- Processional (play), a 1925 play
- Roman Processional, the tenth chapter of Rituale Romanum
- Processional cross, a Crucifix held during a Christian procession
- Processional hymn, a hymn or plainchant sung during a Christian procession
- Processional walkway, a ceremonial walkway
Usage examples of "processional".
Charlan murmured breathlessly as they made for the processional door, away from the now-muttering abbot.
We all join the repeated processional and recessional throughout the season.
But the larva of the Calosoma sycophanta, which feeds on the Processional caterpillar of the oak-tree, pays no heed to it, neither does the Dermestes, which feeds on the entrails of the Processional caterpillar of the pine-tree.
At twelve, in the costume of a choirboy, he had lifted a priceless fruitwood Madonna over his head and marched out with a church processional, singing at the top of his lungs.
The signal column of blackhearts, the processional of the cloud with its attendants, and the victim waiting alone, a victim prepared for the ritual by my actions.
A bevy of additional clergy and choristers also waited with torches and incense and a huge, jeweled processional cross, but Hubert came and led the two of them inside, out of the sun, to wait in the cool of the baptistery near the rear doors until the expected cortege should actually come into sight.
Eight boy altar servers dressed in white would follow the choristers, drawn up by twos behind them, each carrying a processional torch in a silver-gleaming holder, each looking most uncomfortable in the heat.
And this tale that Tunigorn had to tell - the grand processional abandoned, the Coronal venturing into the wild jungles where the Shapeshifters lived - no, no, it was too much, it was beyond all reason!
Pilgrims chanted the Processional, calling in turn upon each of the Thousand Gods to bless their Pilgrimage, to bring peace and prosperity to the City and the kingdom and the lives of the Pilgrims themselves.
Valentine had heard that Lord Tyeveras had been there, on one of his several grand processionals, and he thought that Lord Kinniken once had done the same.
She knew them by the fustigar shapes they had taken, ones often seen in processionals at the Danderbat keep, as familiar in their way as the actual shapes of the two shifter men.
So the situation is precisely as I heard Sleet express it to the Coronal, when they were at the Labyrinth at the beginning of the grand processional - and which I heard the Coronal refuse to accept: that the Shapeshifters are making war upon us.
India an upper processional path so reached was a feature of many stupas but in Tibet the space at the foot of the dome was too narrow to be functional.
We slipped out just as the opening notes of an organ processional sounded, and Biggs led me toward the Second Avenue elevated.
Even with the Coronal off on his grand processional, the wheels continued to turn, the unending spew of decrees and revisions of decrees and abrogations of decrees poured forth.