Definition of procession in English:

procession

noun prəˈsɛʃ(ə)nprəˈsɛʃən

1A number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony.
a funeral procession
Example sentencesExamples
- A Yorkshire soldier will have a key place in the guiding of the ceremonial gun to be used for the procession and funeral of the Queen Mother.
- The ceremony began with a procession from the local community centre to the church followed by special devotions in the church.
- Thousands marched behind his funeral procession, a measure of his extraordinary impact on Russia's very heart, soul, and mind.
- The 60-minute performances feature traditional dances of the four regions, a wedding ceremony, wedding processions and a sword fight.
- In a break with Royal tradition the Princess Royal will also join the procession, a ceremony usually reserved for men.
- The London procession and ceremony were being televised live - TV cameras were allowed into Westminster Abbey for the first time.
- The pupils from the two schools joined together in singing, reading, praying and processions to make the ceremony beautiful.
- Catholic countries like Spain make the most of the holy season (semana santa) with torchlit processions and extravagant religious ceremonies.
- The purpose of cursus monuments is unclear, but it is assumed they were used for parades or some kind of ceremony which involved processions.
- And ever since then I have held little regard for all the pomp and ceremony of military processions and patriotism.
- The common law allows orderly protests, processions, petitions and so forth - and these blockades were entirely orderly.
- Five thousand admirers marched in his funeral procession and Poole became a martyr for anti-immigrant nativists.
- The procession followed a private ceremony, attended by about 200 family and friends.
- At burial ceremonies several processions, each one associated with a grade of the society, go from the lodge to the burial place.
- A torchlight procession, a religious ceremony and blessing mark the day that Saint Dévoe is believed to have arrived in Monaco.
- A car bomber drove his vehicle into a funeral procession, a funeral procession for one of the local prominent tribal leaders there.
- The ceremony begins with a procession from your college to the Senate House (a short walk in our case).
- Events will include a civic procession and wreath laying ceremony on Saturday followed by a civic service at St Charles Borromeo to celebrate Wilberforce's life and work.
- When the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827.
- The opening ceremony included a procession down the High Street by the society's fleet of funeral vehicles to the sound of a piper major.
Synonyms
parade, march, cavalcade, motorcade, carcade, cortège
column, file, train
march past
Indian jatha, yatra
West Indian mas
1. 1.1mass noun The action of moving forward in an orderly way.
  the fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prior to the Mass the First Communion and Confirmation children, along with the priest, marched in procession into the field headed by a piper.
  On the 10th day, the ruler, in silk and priceless gems, wended his way in procession through the crowded streets on the gorgeously caparisoned elephant.
  Domonic and his friends and family will leave Lyneham in procession at 10 am and will be followed by a tractor decorated with balloons and banners.
  The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm.
  Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was.
  If you go for breakfast around 7 in the morning, you'll see the saffron-clothed local monks in procession down the street, collecting their daily alms.
  Braving scorching sun, the differently abled children came in procession from Subashnagar area to the district Collectorate this afternoon.
  On September 18, all the idols would be taken in procession and immersed in River Cauvery.
  From about 9: 00 a.m. groups of men arriving in procession formed circles.
  The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred.
  On February 20, 1956, to the delight of all the people of Melaka, they were taken in procession to a square opposite the Club.
  An annual procession of vintage commercial vehicles will travel through the district on Sunday.
  A congregation of several hundred people attended the usual evening mass at St Mary's and said the rosary after the statue was brought into the church in procession.
  In glorious sunshine we joined in procession with the bridal car, its traditional wedding doll, sitting on the bonnet.
  After the vigil Mass on Saturday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried in procession through Sheridan Park, not through Bohola village.
  We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
  Much interest was centred in the event and when the candidates left in procession for the church from the school, Churchgate was packed with onlookers.
  Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted.
  It has a man being taken in procession down the platform, garland round his neck and a young girl leading him, men running backwards taking photographs.
  Not only did the residents accord a warm reception to the artistes, there were several volunteers to act out a scene where the bridegroom is taken out in procession in a car.
2. 1.2 A relentless succession of people or things.
  magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders
  Example sentencesExamples
  The main events take place in the cabaret lounge, where we enjoyed a procession of quality acts during our week-long stay, the ballrooms and the smaller side rooms.
  They streamed away like a procession of stars on the dark waters.
  He makes us feel good about not liking French people by dressing up in ridiculous national costumes and acting dumb while interviewing a procession of stereotypical Eurofreaks.
  As a result, Calle 54 is a procession of performances by different musicians, staged especially for Trueba's camera.
  Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts.
  Marcus repeatedly casts life as a kind of death already, a procession of meaningless occurrences.
  Above them streamed a procession of ghosts, one of whom had trailed a foot through Draco's shoulder on the way past, as many as twenty or twenty-five of them.
  As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit.
  There's been a procession of Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians ‘visiting the troops’ in Iraq recently.
  That was all Carlin had to do before picking the ball out of the net with seven minutes remaining as the game deteriorated into a series of hopeful and hopeless long balls and a procession of errant passes.
  Town Hall Square will host a performance by theatre groups Keighley Amateurs and HYT, a Bavarian oompah band and, after dusk, a procession of light.
  The magazine glorifies a procession of vaunted rebels for struggling to persuade a corporate hierarchy to let them generate profits.
  Nowadays every lunchtime sees a procession of pupils to the fast-food shops, where they purchase their batter-covered burgers and greasy chips.
  Bringing home a procession of awful, awful, awful boyfriends.
  Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance.
  A procession of central bankers and finance ministers issued soothing words, united in their confidence that the prospects for the global economy remained good.
  Forgive me if I have, but I have heard a procession of pro-government Israelis pop up on the radio to put the same case with slightly different vocal patterns.
  It was the start of a string of five highly autobiographical films, a form of exorcism on his part for a painful upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and a procession of school bullies.
  These were not quite living men, these wanderers in that fog: they were a dream, a mystery, a procession of shadows over a black sky.
  The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather.
  Synonyms
  series, succession, stream, steady stream, string, sequence, chain, run
2Theology
mass noun The emanation of the Holy Spirit.
Example sentencesExamples
- From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power.
- On the filioque controversy, Bulgakov demonstrates that the East did not have a formal theology for the procession of the Holy Spirit.
- Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday.
- At this point Pope Hadrian I defended the doctrine of procession through the Son against Charlemagne.
- First at Ferrara and later at Florence, fourteen months were spent in discussing the procession of the Spirit, more time than was devoted to any other issue!

Derivatives

processionist

noun

A clash between the police and the processionists looked imminent.
Example sentencesExamples
- It became unruly and on their way the processionists looted the houses and shops of Kashmiri Pandits.
- As far as one could judge the great bulk of the processionists were unemployed.
- A spokesman has condemned the use of force over the processionists and the arrest of the leaders and workers.
- As if on cue, violence broke out with a hailstorm of stones hitting processionists.

Origin

Late Old English, via Old French from Latin processio(n-), from procedere 'move forward' (see proceed).

Definition of procession in US English:

procession

nounprəˈsɛʃənprəˈseSHən

1A number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony or festival.
a funeral procession
Example sentencesExamples
- Catholic countries like Spain make the most of the holy season (semana santa) with torchlit processions and extravagant religious ceremonies.
- At burial ceremonies several processions, each one associated with a grade of the society, go from the lodge to the burial place.
- Five thousand admirers marched in his funeral procession and Poole became a martyr for anti-immigrant nativists.
- A Yorkshire soldier will have a key place in the guiding of the ceremonial gun to be used for the procession and funeral of the Queen Mother.
- The pupils from the two schools joined together in singing, reading, praying and processions to make the ceremony beautiful.
- And ever since then I have held little regard for all the pomp and ceremony of military processions and patriotism.
- The common law allows orderly protests, processions, petitions and so forth - and these blockades were entirely orderly.
- When the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827.
- The purpose of cursus monuments is unclear, but it is assumed they were used for parades or some kind of ceremony which involved processions.
- The 60-minute performances feature traditional dances of the four regions, a wedding ceremony, wedding processions and a sword fight.
- Events will include a civic procession and wreath laying ceremony on Saturday followed by a civic service at St Charles Borromeo to celebrate Wilberforce's life and work.
- In a break with Royal tradition the Princess Royal will also join the procession, a ceremony usually reserved for men.
- The opening ceremony included a procession down the High Street by the society's fleet of funeral vehicles to the sound of a piper major.
- The procession followed a private ceremony, attended by about 200 family and friends.
- A torchlight procession, a religious ceremony and blessing mark the day that Saint Dévoe is believed to have arrived in Monaco.
- The London procession and ceremony were being televised live - TV cameras were allowed into Westminster Abbey for the first time.
- Thousands marched behind his funeral procession, a measure of his extraordinary impact on Russia's very heart, soul, and mind.
- The ceremony began with a procession from the local community centre to the church followed by special devotions in the church.
- The ceremony begins with a procession from your college to the Senate House (a short walk in our case).
- A car bomber drove his vehicle into a funeral procession, a funeral procession for one of the local prominent tribal leaders there.
Synonyms
parade, march, cavalcade, motorcade, carcade, cortège
1. 1.1 The action of moving forward as part of a ceremony.
  the fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession
  Example sentencesExamples
  An annual procession of vintage commercial vehicles will travel through the district on Sunday.
  After the vigil Mass on Saturday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried in procession through Sheridan Park, not through Bohola village.
  Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was.
  On February 20, 1956, to the delight of all the people of Melaka, they were taken in procession to a square opposite the Club.
  The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred.
  In glorious sunshine we joined in procession with the bridal car, its traditional wedding doll, sitting on the bonnet.
  On September 18, all the idols would be taken in procession and immersed in River Cauvery.
  Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted.
  Prior to the Mass the First Communion and Confirmation children, along with the priest, marched in procession into the field headed by a piper.
  From about 9: 00 a.m. groups of men arriving in procession formed circles.
  It has a man being taken in procession down the platform, garland round his neck and a young girl leading him, men running backwards taking photographs.
  If you go for breakfast around 7 in the morning, you'll see the saffron-clothed local monks in procession down the street, collecting their daily alms.
  On the 10th day, the ruler, in silk and priceless gems, wended his way in procession through the crowded streets on the gorgeously caparisoned elephant.
  Much interest was centred in the event and when the candidates left in procession for the church from the school, Churchgate was packed with onlookers.
  A congregation of several hundred people attended the usual evening mass at St Mary's and said the rosary after the statue was brought into the church in procession.
  Braving scorching sun, the differently abled children came in procession from Subashnagar area to the district Collectorate this afternoon.
  Domonic and his friends and family will leave Lyneham in procession at 10 am and will be followed by a tractor decorated with balloons and banners.
  The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm.
  Not only did the residents accord a warm reception to the artistes, there were several volunteers to act out a scene where the bridegroom is taken out in procession in a car.
  We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
2. 1.2 A relentless succession of people or things.
  his path was paved by a procession of industry executives
  Example sentencesExamples
  As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit.
  The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather.
  These were not quite living men, these wanderers in that fog: they were a dream, a mystery, a procession of shadows over a black sky.
  Nowadays every lunchtime sees a procession of pupils to the fast-food shops, where they purchase their batter-covered burgers and greasy chips.
  He makes us feel good about not liking French people by dressing up in ridiculous national costumes and acting dumb while interviewing a procession of stereotypical Eurofreaks.
  They streamed away like a procession of stars on the dark waters.
  A procession of central bankers and finance ministers issued soothing words, united in their confidence that the prospects for the global economy remained good.
  There's been a procession of Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians ‘visiting the troops’ in Iraq recently.
  Town Hall Square will host a performance by theatre groups Keighley Amateurs and HYT, a Bavarian oompah band and, after dusk, a procession of light.
  As a result, Calle 54 is a procession of performances by different musicians, staged especially for Trueba's camera.
  Marcus repeatedly casts life as a kind of death already, a procession of meaningless occurrences.
  Forgive me if I have, but I have heard a procession of pro-government Israelis pop up on the radio to put the same case with slightly different vocal patterns.
  Above them streamed a procession of ghosts, one of whom had trailed a foot through Draco's shoulder on the way past, as many as twenty or twenty-five of them.
  The magazine glorifies a procession of vaunted rebels for struggling to persuade a corporate hierarchy to let them generate profits.
  That was all Carlin had to do before picking the ball out of the net with seven minutes remaining as the game deteriorated into a series of hopeful and hopeless long balls and a procession of errant passes.
  The main events take place in the cabaret lounge, where we enjoyed a procession of quality acts during our week-long stay, the ballrooms and the smaller side rooms.
  Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance.
  It was the start of a string of five highly autobiographical films, a form of exorcism on his part for a painful upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and a procession of school bullies.
  Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts.
  Bringing home a procession of awful, awful, awful boyfriends.
  Synonyms
  series, succession, stream, steady stream, string, sequence, chain, run
2Theology
The emanation of the Holy Spirit.
Example sentencesExamples
- First at Ferrara and later at Florence, fourteen months were spent in discussing the procession of the Spirit, more time than was devoted to any other issue!
- On the filioque controversy, Bulgakov demonstrates that the East did not have a formal theology for the procession of the Holy Spirit.
- Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday.
- From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power.
- At this point Pope Hadrian I defended the doctrine of procession through the Son against Charlemagne.

Origin

Late Old English, via Old French from Latin processio(n-), from procedere ‘move forward’ (see proceed).

单词	procession
释义	Definition of procession in English: procession noun prəˈsɛʃ(ə)nprəˈsɛʃən 1A number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony. a funeral procession Example sentencesExamples A Yorkshire soldier will have a key place in the guiding of the ceremonial gun to be used for the procession and funeral of the Queen Mother. The ceremony began with a procession from the local community centre to the church followed by special devotions in the church. Thousands marched behind his funeral procession, a measure of his extraordinary impact on Russia's very heart, soul, and mind. The 60-minute performances feature traditional dances of the four regions, a wedding ceremony, wedding processions and a sword fight. In a break with Royal tradition the Princess Royal will also join the procession, a ceremony usually reserved for men. The London procession and ceremony were being televised live - TV cameras were allowed into Westminster Abbey for the first time. The pupils from the two schools joined together in singing, reading, praying and processions to make the ceremony beautiful. Catholic countries like Spain make the most of the holy season (semana santa) with torchlit processions and extravagant religious ceremonies. The purpose of cursus monuments is unclear, but it is assumed they were used for parades or some kind of ceremony which involved processions. And ever since then I have held little regard for all the pomp and ceremony of military processions and patriotism. The common law allows orderly protests, processions, petitions and so forth - and these blockades were entirely orderly. Five thousand admirers marched in his funeral procession and Poole became a martyr for anti-immigrant nativists. The procession followed a private ceremony, attended by about 200 family and friends. At burial ceremonies several processions, each one associated with a grade of the society, go from the lodge to the burial place. A torchlight procession, a religious ceremony and blessing mark the day that Saint Dévoe is believed to have arrived in Monaco. A car bomber drove his vehicle into a funeral procession, a funeral procession for one of the local prominent tribal leaders there. The ceremony begins with a procession from your college to the Senate House (a short walk in our case). Events will include a civic procession and wreath laying ceremony on Saturday followed by a civic service at St Charles Borromeo to celebrate Wilberforce's life and work. When the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827. The opening ceremony included a procession down the High Street by the society's fleet of funeral vehicles to the sound of a piper major. Synonyms parade, march, cavalcade, motorcade, carcade, cortège column, file, train march past Indian jatha, yatra West Indian mas 1.1mass noun The action of moving forward in an orderly way. the fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession Example sentencesExamples Prior to the Mass the First Communion and Confirmation children, along with the priest, marched in procession into the field headed by a piper. On the 10th day, the ruler, in silk and priceless gems, wended his way in procession through the crowded streets on the gorgeously caparisoned elephant. Domonic and his friends and family will leave Lyneham in procession at 10 am and will be followed by a tractor decorated with balloons and banners. The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm. Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was. If you go for breakfast around 7 in the morning, you'll see the saffron-clothed local monks in procession down the street, collecting their daily alms. Braving scorching sun, the differently abled children came in procession from Subashnagar area to the district Collectorate this afternoon. On September 18, all the idols would be taken in procession and immersed in River Cauvery. From about 9: 00 a.m. groups of men arriving in procession formed circles. The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred. On February 20, 1956, to the delight of all the people of Melaka, they were taken in procession to a square opposite the Club. An annual procession of vintage commercial vehicles will travel through the district on Sunday. A congregation of several hundred people attended the usual evening mass at St Mary's and said the rosary after the statue was brought into the church in procession. In glorious sunshine we joined in procession with the bridal car, its traditional wedding doll, sitting on the bonnet. After the vigil Mass on Saturday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried in procession through Sheridan Park, not through Bohola village. We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession. Much interest was centred in the event and when the candidates left in procession for the church from the school, Churchgate was packed with onlookers. Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted. It has a man being taken in procession down the platform, garland round his neck and a young girl leading him, men running backwards taking photographs. Not only did the residents accord a warm reception to the artistes, there were several volunteers to act out a scene where the bridegroom is taken out in procession in a car. 1.2 A relentless succession of people or things. magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders Example sentencesExamples The main events take place in the cabaret lounge, where we enjoyed a procession of quality acts during our week-long stay, the ballrooms and the smaller side rooms. They streamed away like a procession of stars on the dark waters. He makes us feel good about not liking French people by dressing up in ridiculous national costumes and acting dumb while interviewing a procession of stereotypical Eurofreaks. As a result, Calle 54 is a procession of performances by different musicians, staged especially for Trueba's camera. Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts. Marcus repeatedly casts life as a kind of death already, a procession of meaningless occurrences. Above them streamed a procession of ghosts, one of whom had trailed a foot through Draco's shoulder on the way past, as many as twenty or twenty-five of them. As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit. There's been a procession of Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians ‘visiting the troops’ in Iraq recently. That was all Carlin had to do before picking the ball out of the net with seven minutes remaining as the game deteriorated into a series of hopeful and hopeless long balls and a procession of errant passes. Town Hall Square will host a performance by theatre groups Keighley Amateurs and HYT, a Bavarian oompah band and, after dusk, a procession of light. The magazine glorifies a procession of vaunted rebels for struggling to persuade a corporate hierarchy to let them generate profits. Nowadays every lunchtime sees a procession of pupils to the fast-food shops, where they purchase their batter-covered burgers and greasy chips. Bringing home a procession of awful, awful, awful boyfriends. Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance. A procession of central bankers and finance ministers issued soothing words, united in their confidence that the prospects for the global economy remained good. Forgive me if I have, but I have heard a procession of pro-government Israelis pop up on the radio to put the same case with slightly different vocal patterns. It was the start of a string of five highly autobiographical films, a form of exorcism on his part for a painful upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and a procession of school bullies. These were not quite living men, these wanderers in that fog: they were a dream, a mystery, a procession of shadows over a black sky. The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather. Synonyms series, succession, stream, steady stream, string, sequence, chain, run 2Theology mass noun The emanation of the Holy Spirit. Example sentencesExamples From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power. On the filioque controversy, Bulgakov demonstrates that the East did not have a formal theology for the procession of the Holy Spirit. Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday. At this point Pope Hadrian I defended the doctrine of procession through the Son against Charlemagne. First at Ferrara and later at Florence, fourteen months were spent in discussing the procession of the Spirit, more time than was devoted to any other issue! Derivatives processionist noun A clash between the police and the processionists looked imminent. Example sentencesExamples It became unruly and on their way the processionists looted the houses and shops of Kashmiri Pandits. As far as one could judge the great bulk of the processionists were unemployed. A spokesman has condemned the use of force over the processionists and the arrest of the leaders and workers. As if on cue, violence broke out with a hailstorm of stones hitting processionists. Origin Late Old English, via Old French from Latin processio(n-), from procedere 'move forward' (see proceed). Definition of procession in US English: procession nounprəˈsɛʃənprəˈseSHən 1A number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony or festival. a funeral procession Example sentencesExamples Catholic countries like Spain make the most of the holy season (semana santa) with torchlit processions and extravagant religious ceremonies. At burial ceremonies several processions, each one associated with a grade of the society, go from the lodge to the burial place. Five thousand admirers marched in his funeral procession and Poole became a martyr for anti-immigrant nativists. A Yorkshire soldier will have a key place in the guiding of the ceremonial gun to be used for the procession and funeral of the Queen Mother. The pupils from the two schools joined together in singing, reading, praying and processions to make the ceremony beautiful. And ever since then I have held little regard for all the pomp and ceremony of military processions and patriotism. The common law allows orderly protests, processions, petitions and so forth - and these blockades were entirely orderly. When the most famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand mourners were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827. The purpose of cursus monuments is unclear, but it is assumed they were used for parades or some kind of ceremony which involved processions. The 60-minute performances feature traditional dances of the four regions, a wedding ceremony, wedding processions and a sword fight. Events will include a civic procession and wreath laying ceremony on Saturday followed by a civic service at St Charles Borromeo to celebrate Wilberforce's life and work. In a break with Royal tradition the Princess Royal will also join the procession, a ceremony usually reserved for men. The opening ceremony included a procession down the High Street by the society's fleet of funeral vehicles to the sound of a piper major. The procession followed a private ceremony, attended by about 200 family and friends. A torchlight procession, a religious ceremony and blessing mark the day that Saint Dévoe is believed to have arrived in Monaco. The London procession and ceremony were being televised live - TV cameras were allowed into Westminster Abbey for the first time. Thousands marched behind his funeral procession, a measure of his extraordinary impact on Russia's very heart, soul, and mind. The ceremony began with a procession from the local community centre to the church followed by special devotions in the church. The ceremony begins with a procession from your college to the Senate House (a short walk in our case). A car bomber drove his vehicle into a funeral procession, a funeral procession for one of the local prominent tribal leaders there. Synonyms parade, march, cavalcade, motorcade, carcade, cortège 1.1 The action of moving forward as part of a ceremony. the fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession Example sentencesExamples An annual procession of vintage commercial vehicles will travel through the district on Sunday. After the vigil Mass on Saturday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried in procession through Sheridan Park, not through Bohola village. Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was. On February 20, 1956, to the delight of all the people of Melaka, they were taken in procession to a square opposite the Club. The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred. In glorious sunshine we joined in procession with the bridal car, its traditional wedding doll, sitting on the bonnet. On September 18, all the idols would be taken in procession and immersed in River Cauvery. Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted. Prior to the Mass the First Communion and Confirmation children, along with the priest, marched in procession into the field headed by a piper. From about 9: 00 a.m. groups of men arriving in procession formed circles. It has a man being taken in procession down the platform, garland round his neck and a young girl leading him, men running backwards taking photographs. If you go for breakfast around 7 in the morning, you'll see the saffron-clothed local monks in procession down the street, collecting their daily alms. On the 10th day, the ruler, in silk and priceless gems, wended his way in procession through the crowded streets on the gorgeously caparisoned elephant. Much interest was centred in the event and when the candidates left in procession for the church from the school, Churchgate was packed with onlookers. A congregation of several hundred people attended the usual evening mass at St Mary's and said the rosary after the statue was brought into the church in procession. Braving scorching sun, the differently abled children came in procession from Subashnagar area to the district Collectorate this afternoon. Domonic and his friends and family will leave Lyneham in procession at 10 am and will be followed by a tractor decorated with balloons and banners. The procession of about 50 vehicles, each one full of mourners, made its way from Clifton to St Oswald's Church, through Bell Farm. Not only did the residents accord a warm reception to the artistes, there were several volunteers to act out a scene where the bridegroom is taken out in procession in a car. We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession. 1.2 A relentless succession of people or things. his path was paved by a procession of industry executives Example sentencesExamples As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit. The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather. These were not quite living men, these wanderers in that fog: they were a dream, a mystery, a procession of shadows over a black sky. Nowadays every lunchtime sees a procession of pupils to the fast-food shops, where they purchase their batter-covered burgers and greasy chips. He makes us feel good about not liking French people by dressing up in ridiculous national costumes and acting dumb while interviewing a procession of stereotypical Eurofreaks. They streamed away like a procession of stars on the dark waters. A procession of central bankers and finance ministers issued soothing words, united in their confidence that the prospects for the global economy remained good. There's been a procession of Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians ‘visiting the troops’ in Iraq recently. Town Hall Square will host a performance by theatre groups Keighley Amateurs and HYT, a Bavarian oompah band and, after dusk, a procession of light. As a result, Calle 54 is a procession of performances by different musicians, staged especially for Trueba's camera. Marcus repeatedly casts life as a kind of death already, a procession of meaningless occurrences. Forgive me if I have, but I have heard a procession of pro-government Israelis pop up on the radio to put the same case with slightly different vocal patterns. Above them streamed a procession of ghosts, one of whom had trailed a foot through Draco's shoulder on the way past, as many as twenty or twenty-five of them. The magazine glorifies a procession of vaunted rebels for struggling to persuade a corporate hierarchy to let them generate profits. That was all Carlin had to do before picking the ball out of the net with seven minutes remaining as the game deteriorated into a series of hopeful and hopeless long balls and a procession of errant passes. The main events take place in the cabaret lounge, where we enjoyed a procession of quality acts during our week-long stay, the ballrooms and the smaller side rooms. Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance. It was the start of a string of five highly autobiographical films, a form of exorcism on his part for a painful upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and a procession of school bullies. Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts. Bringing home a procession of awful, awful, awful boyfriends. Synonyms series, succession, stream, steady stream, string, sequence, chain, run 2Theology The emanation of the Holy Spirit. Example sentencesExamples First at Ferrara and later at Florence, fourteen months were spent in discussing the procession of the Spirit, more time than was devoted to any other issue! On the filioque controversy, Bulgakov demonstrates that the East did not have a formal theology for the procession of the Holy Spirit. Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday. From the formality of the opening procession to the intimacy of Communion, God wants to fill our hearts and minds with his truth, his love, and his power. At this point Pope Hadrian I defended the doctrine of procession through the Son against Charlemagne. Origin Late Old English, via Old French from Latin processio(n-), from procedere ‘move forward’ (see proceed).
随便看	set on seton set on set on set on set one back set one's cap at set one's cap at set oneself apart set oneself up as set oneself up (as) set oneself up as set one's face against set one's face against set one's hand to set one's hand to the plough set one's heart on set one's heart (or hopes) on set one's heart (or hopes) on set one's hopes on set one's house in order set one's mind to set one's seal on set one's seal to set one's sights on