Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a procession; in solemn or formal march.
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- adverb In
processional fashion; one after the other.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tea followed her processionally in a silver pot, borne by a maidservant whose air of natural superiority was unimpaired by the fact that she was still attired in her nightdress.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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She had formed pretty notions how charming it would look to have a penitent of her own making dangling at her side at church, through an applauding neighbourhood: and, as their family increased, marching with her thither, at the head of their boys and girls, processionally, as it were, boasting of the fruits of their honest desires, as my good lord bishop has it in his license.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Sunday in this new life he and Miriam arrayed themselves with great care, he in his wedding-funeral hat and coat and she in her going-away dress, and went processionally to church, a more respectable looking couple you could hardly imagine, and looked about them.
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And they appeared absolutely unmoved by the progress through their midst of a train of young assistants who, having probably at that moment no urgent duty, advanced processionally bearing rolls of bread in baskets.
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On the 15th of September of that year, which is its festa, another image of wood is carried processionally with much pomp.
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The whole company walked as it were processionally to the end of the apartment, and, after observing in silence the beds on each side, left us.
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The whole company walked as it were processionally to the end of the apartment, and, after observing in silence the beds on each side, left us.
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I went up the steps amongst them, the only human thing, for men and women worship no more in Arras Cathedral, and the trees have come instead; little humble things, all less than four years old, in great numbers thronging the steps processionally, and growing in perfect rows just where step meets step.
Unhappy Far-Off Things Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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Returning processionally to the Lateran Palace, he carried the rose in his hand, and arriving at the door of the palace, he gave to the Prefect of Rome who had led his horse by the bridle and had aided him to dismount, the rose as a recompense for acts of respect and homage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The picture was venerated, guarded in the bishop's chapel, and soon after carried processionally to the preliminary shrine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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