Meaning of Processional | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.
2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner.
3. A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.

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Examples

“A perfectly drilled wedding procession, like⟳ a military one, should move⟳ forward⟳ in perfect step, rising and falling in a block⟳ or unit. To secure perfection of detail, the bars of the processional may be counted so that the music comes to an end⟳ at precisely the moment the bride and groom stand⟳ side by side at the chancel steps.”

“[…] a rainy Palm Sunday. […] At Grace Church on-the-Hill, the children and the acolytes stood huddled in the narthex; holding their palm fronds, they resembled tourists who’d landed in the tropics on an unseasonably cold day. The organist chose Brahms for the processional—“O Welt ich muss dich lassen”; “O world I must leave⟳ you.””

“He saw⟳ the processional of world brotherhood tramp steadily through the paling sunset; saffron-vestured Mandarin marching by flax-faced Norseman and languid South Sea Islander—the diverse peoples toward whom he had always yearned.”

“And Eugene watched the slow fusion of the seasons; he saw⟳ the royal processional of the months; he saw⟳ the summer light⟳ eat⟳ like⟳ a river into dark; he saw⟳ dark triumph once again; and he saw⟳ the minute-winning days, like⟳ flies, buzz home to death.”

“At the Wusdatts’ once, the two had marched in the processional to the buffet table with their small fingers linked […]”

“[…] they heard the voices of living men shouting, finally. And the lowing of cattle. And the creaking of wheels. But they saw⟳ nothing. The symphonious clamor was everywhere, filling the sky […], it was the great processional of the Union armies, but of no more substance than an army of ghosts.”

“[47] Item that the Churchwardens of euery paryshe shall delyuer vnto our visitours the inuentories of vestmentes, copes, and other ornamentes, plate, bookes, and specyallye of Grayles, Couchers, Legendes, Processionalles, Hymnalles, Manuelles, Portuesses, and suche lyke apperteynyng to theyr Church.”

“c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die⟳ Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory, London: R. Royston and T. Williams, 1671, p. 114, By the Use⟳ of Sarum (for ’tis almost the only place⟳ where I can hear⟳ any thing of this; that of York in their Processional seems to take⟳ no notice⟳ of it) upon the Eve to Innocents Day the Chorister-Bishop was to go in solemn Procession with his fellows […]”

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