Processional

Quick meaning: Processional is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.

More Meanings

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. (Roman Catholicism) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.

Example Sentences

All the urchins of the marketplace formed a processional tail behind him.

The oxen took up again their quiet processional gait and the old man walked ahead of them, his eyes on the ground.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• processionals

Synonyms for processional

Depending on context, synonyms include procession, prosodion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prosodion, proemial, preceremony, preceremonial, preparade, preformative.

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