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Definition of Procession

Procession 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. To march in procession. To honor with a procession. Related Definitions: Act, Advancing, An, And, Around, As, Ascertain, Boundary, Ceremonial, Ceremonious, Choir, Church, Continuous, Course, Either, Establish, For, From, Honor, In, Is, Issuing, Kneeling, Litanies, Lord, Manner, March, Mark, Mayor, Moving, Not, Of, Old, On, Onward, Or, Order, Orderly, Proceeding, Procession, Progress, Regular, Retinue, Sacristy, Said, Solemn, Stately, Term, That, The, To, Train, Were, Which, With, Within, Without

Procession Quotations 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 Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, 'with both eyes open'. Nicolaus Copernicus 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

Procession Translations procession in Dutch is processie, stoet, optocht, omgang procession in French is procession procession in German is Prozession, Festzug, Aufzug {m}

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