procession (proses hon)

[= It. proce ion are, sion. There is eating, and drinking, and proce ioning , and masquerading. Colman, Man and Wife, i. ( Davies.) Two weary hours of proce ioning about the town, and the inevitable collation. Josiah Quincy , Figures of the Past, p. 368. II. trans. 1. To treat or beset with proce ions. [Rare.] When theyr feast full dayes come, they are... with no small solemn it ye mat tensed, ma ed, can deled, lyghted, proce ioned, censed, etc. Bp. Bale, English Votaries, i. 2. In some of the American colonies, to go about in order to settle the boundaries of, as land. The term is still used in North Carolina and Tenne ee. Compare to beat the bounds, under bound1. Once in every four years [in the Virginia colony] the vestry, by order of the county court, divided the parish into precincts, and appointed two persons in each precinct to proce ion the lands. These surveyors, a isted by neighbors, examined and renewed, by blazing trees or by other artificial devices, the old landmarks of the fathers, and reported the result to the vestry, who record ed the same in the parish books. Johns Hopkins Hist . Studies , III. 64. proce ional (prō-sesh'on-al), a.and n . [ME ME. proce yonal (n.), proce ional , F. proces sional = Sp. procesional = Pg. proce ional = It. * proce ion ale (in adv. proce ionalmente ), proce ional is , in neut. proce ion ale, a proce ional (book), proce io ( n- ), proce ion: see proce ion .] I. a. Pertaining to a proce ion; consisting in, having the movement of, or used in a proce ion: as, a proces sional hymn. - Proce ional cro . See cro 1 . II. n. 1. An office-book containing the offices with their antiphons, hymns, rubrical directions, etc., for use in proce ional litanies and other religious proce ions. The ancient service books,.. the Antiphoners, Mi als, Grailes, Proce ionals ,... in Latin or English, written or printed. R. W. Dixon , Ilist. Church of Eng., xvi. 2. A hymn sung during a religious proce ion, particularly during the entry of the clergy and choir into the church before divine service. proce ionalist (pro-sesh'on-al-ist), n. [ proce ionally (pro-sesh'on-al-i), adv. In the manner of a proce ion; in solemn or formal march. Henry [V.] himself rode between long glittering rows of clergy who had come proce ionally forth to bring him into Rouen by its principal gate. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 305. stance is derived their name of proce ionary caterpillar. S. G. Good rich, in H. J. Johnson's Nat. Hist. II. n. Same as proce ioner , 2. proce ioner (pro-sesh'on-er), n. [ ce yon are (def. 2), proce ion a ire , F. pro ce ionnaire, proce ionarius , pertaining to a proce ion, neut. proce ionarium , a proce ional (book): see proce ionary .] 1. One who goes in a proce ion. [Rare.] The proce ioners , seeing them running towards them, and with them the troopers of the holy brotherhood with their cro -bows, began to fear some evil accident. Jarvis, tr. of Don Quixote, I. iv. 25. ( Davies .) 2. A county officer in North Carolina and Tenne ee charged with the duty of surveying lands at the request of an occupant claiming to be owner.