The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without.
An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. Mark Twain
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. Mark Twain
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. Kate Chopin
