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▪ I. procession, n.|prəʊˈsɛʃən|
Also 2–4 -iun, (4 -iune), 3–5 -ioun, (4–5 -ioune), 3–6 -yon, 4–6 -ione, 5 -yone, -youn, -iowne; 4 procesioun, -sesioun, -scession, -sessyoun, (5 -yon, 6 -ion), 5 -cescion, 6 -ssession.
[Early ME. a. F. procession (11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. prōcessiōnem a marching onwards, advance, in late and med.L. a religious procession, n. of action f. prōcēdĕre to proceed.]
The action of proceeding.
1. a. The action of a body of persons going or marching along in orderly succession, in a formal or ceremonial way; esp. as a religious ceremony, or on a festive occasion.
1103–23O.E. Chron. an. 1103, æfter sancte Michaeles mæssan on .xii. Kal. Nov' he wæs mid procession under fangan to abbote. 1154Ibid. an. 1154, Was under fangen mid micel wurtscipe at Burch mid micel processiun. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 91 Nime was þenne ȝeme ȝif ure procession bi maked after ure helendes procession. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 15/471 A-doun of þe hulle wende þe Aumperour with fair processioun. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8368 Massen & processions hii made monion. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 2732 And brouȝte Beues in to þe toun Wiþ a faire prosesioun. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 387 The King [Rich. II]..forbad streyghtly all Bishoppes and Prelates that such Processions shoulde be no more vsed. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 62 When they would haue raine, ten Virgins clothed in hallowed garments of red colour, danced a procession. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts vi. (1739) 515 At the Reformation, when all Processions were abolished. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xvii. 6 Passive under a Salian god's most lusty procession. 1904W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Ch. xiii. 160 After the analogy of a religious procession on the occasion of a festival.
b. Phr. to go, walk (etc.) in procession; † formerly also on, to, with procession; to go (a) procession.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 5 Al þat folc eode þar forð to processiun to munte oliueti. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 89 Dominica Palmarum. It is custume þat ech chirchsocne goð þis dai a procession. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 19 For to gone with processioun wt her candel. 14..in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 162 The kyng and the quene..wentt on processyon through London. 1466in Archæologia (1887) L. i. 49 Also he [the sexton] shall bere the crosse on procession. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 415 The French men..go a procession about all the Churches in Metz. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. ii. 5 All the religious men..went in Procession bare footed, and in their cowles with waxe Candles in their hands. 1662Virginia Stat. (1823) II. 102 Within twelve months after this act, all the inhabitants of every neck and tract of land adjoining shall goe in procession and see the marked trees of every mans land..to be renewed. 1693Dryden Juvenal xvi. Notes (1697) 391 As we go once a Year in Procession, about the Bounds of Parishes, and renew them. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 29 The Commons went in procession to Whitehall with their address on the subject of the test.
c. transf. Of boats, barges, etc. (See also quot. 1937.)
(At Oxford, ‘a Procession of Boats’ over the rowing course on the Thames formerly took place annually in Commemoration Week. Described, but not under this name, in Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. of 15 June 1839.)
1843Jackson's Oxford Jrnl. 1 July 3/1 In the evening [of Tuesday 27 June] thousands of persons were congregated on the banks of the river to witness the procession of the racing boats. Ibid., After the procession had ceased a splendid display of fireworks took place. 1893President's Bk. Oxf. Univ. Boat-Cl., The Procession of Boats took place on Monday June 19. 1893Secretary's Bk. ibid. Oct., The Procession of Boats was abolished unanimously. 1900W. E. Sherwood Oxford Rowing xi. 98. 1902 Daily Chron. 10 July 5/2 At the half-mile London were leading by fully three lengths, and from Fawley it was simply a procession, the London pair winning anyhow. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 661/1 Procession, as applied to a race, esp. a boat-race (above all, one in which there are only two crews), implies ‘an ignominious defeat’. 1958Times 22 Sept. 14/2 Although she [sc. the British yacht] made up half a minute..it was obvious that..it could not now be anything more than a procession.
d. Cricket. A rapid succession of batsmen; a batting collapse.
1891W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 76 West Gloucestershire [scored] 6 only. Only nine overs were bowled, and it was a most inglorious procession. 1927M. A. Noble Those ‘Ashes’ 210 The Civil Service first innings was almost a procession. They were able to make only 59. 1977Times 17 Jan. 7/1 The Australian procession started when Turner was caught by Majid off Sarfraz for 11.
2. concr.
a. A body of persons marching in this way.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1095 Sodanly on a wonder wyse, I watz war of a prosessyoun. 1451J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (E.E.T.S.) 105 In þis mene-while þe procession went fro þe hous. 1696Tate & Brady Ps. lxviii. 27 Zebulon..And Nephthali..(The grand Procession to compleat) Sent up their Tribes, a Princely Host. 1705Addison Italy 195 (Naples) My First Days at Naples were taken up with the Sight of Processions. 1866Neale Seq. & Hymns 131 Again shall long processions sweep through Lincoln's Minster pile.
b. transf. and fig. A regular series, sequence, row, or succession of things, such as suggests an orderly march.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. viii. (Contents), In the second plate of this chapter is..a further Procession of Tradesmens Tools. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 13 The majestic procession of stately aqueducts which no barbarism has been able to destroy.
3. transf.
a. A litany, form of prayer, or office, said or sung in a religious procession. Obs. exc. Hist.
1543in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. l. 384 Being resolved to have continually..general processions..said and sung with such devotion & reverence as appertaineth. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 433 By the kyng her fathers commaundement procession was sayde in the vulgare tongue. 15941st Pt. Contention (Shaks. Soc.) 62 Come let vs hast to London now with speed, That solemne prosessions may be sung. 1616Marlowe's Faust. iii. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 119/1 (Stage Direct.) Monks and Friars, singing their procession. 1904A. F. Pollard Cranmer vi. 172 note, The use of litanies had early grown up in the Western Church and from the fact that they were sung in procession they were often themselves called processions.
†b. A book of such offices; a processional.
1540Knaresborough Wills I. 34 To by a processione and other ornamentes to ye said church necessaries iijs. iiijd.
4. The action of proceeding, issuing, or coming forth from a source; emanation. Chiefly Theol. in reference to the Holy Spirit (cf. filioque).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxviii. (Add. MS.), By procession þe holy gost comeþ of þe fader and of þe sone. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iv. 2299 After thei had spoken..of the hooly goost and his procession. 1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 56 It is absolutely taketh away the nature of a sonne, and consequently the admirable procession of the second person. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. v. (1840) 183 The Greeks..maintain the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone. 1699Burnet 39 Art. viii. (1700) 106 The Article of the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and all that follows it, is not in the Nicene Creed. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. vi. v. 253 The Procession and Mission of the Holy Spirit are nothing, according to him [Servetus], but the Action of God, by which he acts on his Creatures. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 263 As the Council of Florence states, the Greek and Latin Fathers, though using different language, meant the same as to the Procession of God the Holy Ghost. 1907J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity i. 16 The doctrine of the Trinity..confessedly underwent development,..by the adoption..of such terms as substance,..circuminsession, double procession.
5. The action of proceeding, going on, or advancing; onward movement, progress, progression, advance.
a. lit. ? Obs. or merged in 1.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 102 There is a double procession or way of choler. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 245 The women in large Carosses, being drawne with the slowest procession. a1763Shenstone Elegies xxiv. 72 And hail the bright procession of the sun.
b. fig. Now rare.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. x. 12 b, Of the further procession of our Nauigation. 1663Cowley Pindar. Odes, Isa. xxxiv. Notes, The motion of the Spirit of God, for it is a Procession of his will to an outward Effect. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excursion iv. 13 An assured belief That the procession of our fate..is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power. 1875Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. ii. 393 The flash is antecedent to the sound of the explosion, but the flash is not the cause of the sound; it has no procession in the sound.
6. attrib. and Comb., as procession-aisle, procession-gadding, procession-man, procession-pace, procession-road, procession-way; procession-wise adv.; procession caterpillar, moth (processionary a. 2); procession-day, a day on which a procession is made; spec. (pl.) the Rogation days (= gang-days); procession-flower, a name for the common milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), from its blossoming about Rogation week and being worn by persons taking part in the processions (cf. gang-flower); Procession-week, a name for Rogation week, from the processions then made (= gang-week).
1856Ecclesiologist XVII. 89 The choir-screens facing the *procession-aisle are beautifully treated.
1850Chamb. Jrnl. 25 May 327/1 Interesting communications..concerning the *procession-caterpillar (Bombyx processionea, Linn.).
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 157 If a man accuse another of any crime, let him make him recompence, unless he did it upon *Procession-days. 1668Pepys Diary 30 Apr., To the Dolphin tavern, there to meet our neighbours,..this being Procession-day.
1633Gerarde's Herbal ii. clxix. 564 Milkewort is called by Dodonæus, Flos Ambarualis; so called because it doth especially flourish in the Crosse or Gang weeke, or Rogation weeke; of which floures the maidens which vse in the countries to walke the Procession doe make themselues garlands and nosegaies: in English we may call it Crosse-floure, *Procession-floure, Gang-floure, Rogation-floure, and Milkewort.
a1555G. Marsh in Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1565/1 Holy water casting, *procession gadding, Mattins mumbling.
1837Dickens Pickw. iii, What a host of shabby, poverty-stricken men hang about the stage of a large establishment—not regularly engaged actors, but ballet people, *procession men, tumblers, and so forth.
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iv. (1818) I. 131 The *procession moth (B. processionea, L.) of which Reaumur has given so interesting an account. Ibid. xvi. II. 8 The larvæ..live in society and emigrate in files, like the caterpillar of the procession-moth.
1652Evelyn Diary 23 June, Within three miles of Bromley, at a place call'd the *Procession Oake.
1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 4 The twelve duennas and their lady advanced at a *procession-pace, their faces covered with white veils.
1466in Archæologia (1887) L. i. 51 Thei shal..suffer no grave nor pitte to be made in the *procession way.
1546–7in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 274 Payed in the *procession weke to the baner bearers and bell ryngers. 1570B. Googe Popish Kingd. iv. (1880) 53 (margin) Procession weeke. Bounds are beaten.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 56 A great company of virgins go *procession-wise two and two in a rank singing before him.
▪ II. proˈcession, v.
[f. prec. n. So med.L. processiōnāre (Du Cange).]
1. trans. To honour or celebrate by a procession; to carry in procession.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 72 b, Whan theyr feastfull dayes come, they [saints] are yet in the papystyck churches of Englande, with no small solempnite mattensed, massed, candeled, lyghted, processyoned..and worshypped. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. vii, Jean Jacques too.. must be dug up from Ermenonville, and processioned, with pomp,..to the Pantheon of the Fatherland.
2. intr. To make a procession, religious or other; to go in procession. (See also processioning.)
1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 362 To go a Processioning with great Crosses of Wood upon their Shoulders. 1802Mrs. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville Posth. Wks. 1826 I. 89 As he turned out of the gate, he met the Prior..and a long train processioning, all in full ceremony, bearing precious reliques, to welcome his Highness. 1859Trollope West Indies xviii. (1860) 268 The whole town was processioning from morning..till evening.
b. spec. To perambulate the bounds.
1671Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 223 June 1. Holy thursday, St. Peter's [in the East] parishioners came a processioning and took in half Alban hall. 1723–4Bristol (Virginia) Parish Vestry Bk. (1898) 15 It is ordered that Godfry Fowler Junr and Mark Moon procession from Nooning Creek to the Extent of the Parish.
3. trans. To go round (something) in procession; spec. in some of the N. American colonies (and still in the states of N. Carolina and Tennessee), to make a procession around a piece of land in order formally to determine its bounds (with the land, or bounds, as obj.): = perambulate v. 2 b. Also to walk along (a street, etc.) in procession.
1710Acts Assembly Virginia (1759) 292 The bounds of every persons land shall be processioned or gone round, and the landmarks renewed..such processioning shall be made in every precinct. 1727Bristol (Virginia) Parish Vestry Bk. (1898) 34 To procession lands on the South Side Bristoll parrish. 1883E. Ingle in Johns Hopkins Hist. Studies Ser. iii. ii. (1885) 64 Once in every four years the vestry, by order of the county court, divided the parish into precincts, and appointed two persons in each precinct to ‘procession’ the lands. 1887Pall Mall G. 25 Oct. 4/1 Meetings of the unemployed were held yesterday in Trafalgar-square, and certain streets of the West-end were processioned by the crowd, with a red flag at their head. |