processional

== English == === Etymology === From procession + -al. === Adjective === processional (not comparable) Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding. 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura, Book 4, in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., pp. 170-171,[2] The nuptial day arrives. The virgin, preceded by a splendid retinue, and followed by her mother, her female relatives, and the damsels of her tribe, issues from the tent of her father. […] The women then followed with solemn and processional steps. ==== Derived terms ==== processionally ==== Translations ==== === Noun === processional (plural processionals) A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner. Synonym: procession (Roman Catholicism) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory, London: R. Royston and T. Williams, 1671, p. 114,[13] By the Use of Sarum (for ’tis almost the only place where I can hear any thing of this; that of York in their Processional seems to take no notice of it) upon the Eve to Innocents Day the Chorister-Bishop was to go in solemn Procession with his fellows […] ==== Derived terms ==== processionalist === Coordinate terms === recessional