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processionn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin procession-, processio; French processiun, procession. Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin procession-, processio (see below); subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman processiun, processione and Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French procession (French procession ) escort going in front of or accompanying an important person (beginning of the 12th cent.), religious procession (a1174), column of marching people (a1190), action of proceeding (1327), emanation (of the Holy Spirit) (a1429) < post-classical Latin procession- , processio action of proceeding or advancing (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), progress, success (Vetus Latina), solemn procession, emanation, especially of the Holy Spirit (4th cent.), religious procession (5th cent.), divine office, religious meeting (6th cent.) < classical Latin prōcess- , past participial stem of prōcēdere proceed v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Old Occitan procession (c1150), Catalan processió (13th cent.; now chiefly in sense 2), professó (13th cent.), processó (14th cent.), Spanish procesión (1215 as procession), Italian processione (a1284).With sense 4 compare earlier processional n., processionary n. 1. In Old English in form processio after the Latin nominative singular, and in form processionem after the Latin accusative singular. 1. society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession > action of society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > one going in procession > collectively society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession OE Regularis Concordia (Corpus Cambr.) in (1890) 84 2 Seo processio þæs dæges [sc. palmsunnandæg] længre is, þonne seo, þe mon on claustre ælce sunnandæge deð. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1103 Mathias..wæs mid procession underfangan to abbote. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1154 He..was underfangen [mid mic]el [wurtscipe at] Burch mid [mice]l processiun. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 91 Nime we þenne geme gif ure procession bi maked after ure helendes procession. c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 471 in C. Horstmann (1887) 15 A-doun of þe hulle wende þe Aumperour with fair processioun. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 128v Oure lord was I-fonge wiþ processioun [L. processionaliter] and wiþ bowis & sprayes of treen. a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 865 in C. Horstmann (1881) 2nd Ser. 301 (MED) Þey tokon vp þis fayre body..And to þe heyȝe auter þere-with þey duden go With fayre processione. c1450 (a1400) (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1397 (MED) He wente yn-to þe toun; Wyth fayr processioun Þat folk com hym agayn. 1613 S. Purchas 62 When they would haue raine, ten Virgins clothed in hallowed garments of red colour, danced a procession. 1673 in W. W. Hening (1810) II. 305 The act for processions hath beene hindred to be put in execution. 1704 R. Nelson ii. vi. 418 At the Reformation, when all Processions were abolished. 1809 T. E. Tomlins (at cited word) The boundaries and abuttals of corporation and church land..are preserved by an annual procession. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus xvii. 6 Passive under a Salian god's most lusty procession. 1904 W. M. Ramsay xiii. 160 After the analogy of a religious procession on the occasion of a festival. 1991 P. Sweeney 249 Mourners whose outward funeral procession to the cemetery was sombre but whose return was joyful. society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go in procession OE Ælfric 2nd Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr (1914) 216 Do þonne se mæssepreost on ufeweardum his heafde myd ðære haligan rode tacne..ærðamþe he mæssige and gan to processionem. lOE Permission to ring Bells, Exeter in J. Earle (1888) 260 And for þyse leaua, twygys elce gere, þat is an Palmsunnendeg, & Cristes upstigan deg, to processiun mid þam canunche hy gan sceule. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 99 Cumen..a palm sunedai to procession, a shereðursdai to absoluciun. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 89 (MED) It is custume þat ech chirchsocne goð þis dai a procession. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1846 in C. Horstmann (1887) 159 (MED) Ech preost somonede is paroche..to beon alle ȝare aȝein him with procession for-to wende. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 8368 (MED) Massen & processions hii made monion. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith (1870) 19 For to gone with processioun wt her candel. a1438 (1940) i. 174 (MED) On þe Holy Thursday..þe sayd creatur went processyon wyth oþer pepil. a1500 (c1400) (1977) 351 (MED) Þai passyd forthe in processioun, and alle þe pepulle folowid. c1542 in (1887) 50 49 Also he [sc. the sexton] shall bere the crosse on procession. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. ccccxv The French men..go a procession about all the Churches in Metz. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda i. ii. 5 All the religious men..went in Procession bare footed, and in their cowles with waxe Candles in their hands. 1662 in W. W. Hening (1823) II. 102 Within twelve months after this act, all the inhabitants of every neck and tract of land adjoining shall goe in procession and see the marked trees of every mans land..to be renewed. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal xvi. 315 As we go once a Year in Procession, about the Bounds of Parishes, and renew them. 1719 D. Defoe 311 It was the same Idol, for they carry him about in Procession all over the Country. 1762 T. Smollett I. xi. 237 They were accordingly led thro' the street in procession, guarded by the constable and his gang. 1774 Shaw in Pennant App. ii. 291 At marriages and baptisms they make a procession around the church. 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. vi. 29 The Commons went in procession to Whitehall with their address on the subject of the test. 1873 L. Wallace vii. xv. 548 Out of the palace-gate in the early morning passed the lords of the court in procession, carrying the remains of the monarch. 1908 L. M. Montgomery xx. 225 We marched in procession down the road, two by two. 1950 11 July 4/7 To-day the King on the right hand and the Queen on the left walked together, followed by Princess Margaret, in procession behind the sixty-seventh Bishop of Exeter. 1995 21 Oct. b2/1 When it finished the students walked in procession out the back of the auditorium. society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing in company > procession 1816 5 Oct. 3/2 The new Canal..was opened by a procession of boats and barges. 1843 1 July 3/1 In the evening [of Tuesday 27 June] thousands of persons were congregated on the banks of the river to witness the procession of the racing boats. 1861 N. A. Woods 152 The lumberers, who in Ottawa welcomed the Prince in their procession of canoes. 1893 Oct. The Procession of Boats was abolished unanimously. 1960 11 Apr. 11/4 The determination of the Shropshire Boat Users' Association to organize a procession of small boats on the river Severn on May 22. 1996 (Nexis) 25 Jan. Flags Afloat is..a parade of sail or a procession of sail; it's open to anyone who owns a boat. the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [noun] > person of > origin of one from another a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 326v By processioun [L. processionabilitatem] þe holy gost comeþ of þe fader and of þe sone. c1450 J. Capgrave (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 2299 Thei had spoken..of the hooly goost and his procession. a1513 J. Irland (1965) II. 24 The sone procedis fra the fader be way of generacioun, and the haly spreit be the way of processioun. ?1567 (new ed.) 55 The firste caunsaile [sic] holden at Constantinople against Eunomius for deniyng of the procession of the holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne. 1605 A. Wotton 56 It is absolutely taketh away the nature of a sonne, and consequently the admirable procession of the second person. 1639 T. Fuller iv. v. 174 The Greeks..maintain the procession of the holy Spirit from the Father alone. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet (1700) viii. 106 The Article of the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and all that follows it, is not in the Nicene Creed. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin I. vi. v. 253 The Procession and Mission of the Holy Spirit are nothing, according to him [sc. Servetus], but the Action of God, by which he acts on his Creatures. 1865 E. B. Pusey 263 As the Council of Florence states, the Greek and Latin Fathers, though using different language, meant the same as to the Procession of God the Holy Ghost. 1907 J. R. Illingworth i. 16 The doctrine of the Trinity..confessedly underwent development,..by the adoption..of such terms as substance,..circuminsession, double procession. 1990 iv. 146 In Byzantine eyes this disagreement over the procession of the Spirit was the main theological issue between the churches. 3. concrete. society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession c1400 (?c1380) 1096 Sodanly..I watz war of a prosessyoun. c1451 J. Capgrave (1910) 105 In þis mene-while þe procession went fro þe hous. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara (1537) xvi. f. 27v This emperour..lefte the procession of senatours. 1638 W. Melvin tr. C. Garcia vii. 135 A man..chastised..by a procession of Monks who charge him, after his amendment, to feare God. 1696 N. Tate & N. Brady lxviii. 27 Zebulon..And Nephthali..(The grand Procession to compleat) Sent up their Tribes, a Princely Host. 1705 J. Addison 195 My First Days at Naples were taken up with the Sight of Processions. 1794 A. Radcliffe II. ii. 44 She..discerned, in the distant perspective of the canal, something like a procession, floating on the light surface of the water. 1866 J. M. Neale 131 Again shall long processions sweep through Lincoln's Minster pile. 1873 J. E. Cooke i. iii. 18 An hour afterwards the procession of coaches, containing..the queen, the royal family, and maids of honor, issued from London. 1919 J. Reed iv. 98 In dignified silence, the procession marched around and back up the Nevsky, always in column of fours. 1956 R. Macaulay ii. 23 The St. Gregory's clergy and choir filed in chanting, incense-swinging, saint-bearing processions out of their church door. 2004 Spring 31/1 The centre of our procession consisted of three massive trio electrico boom lorries, packed full of speakers. the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession a1564 Q. Kennedy Compend. Ressonyng in (1964) 152 Last of all, I will hwmyllie desyr my lorde of Athenis..to go hindmest in this famous processioun..to mak confutatioun (etc.) (supra in speciall to Knox, Willock (etc.)..Spottiswod, Athenis). 1688 R. Holme Contents sig. **3/1 In the Second Plate of this Chapter, is..a further Procession of Tradesmens Tools. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury II. v. 316 ‘A Creature, which..arriv'd where for many Generations it has been at a stay.’ In this long Procession..I ask, ‘Where was it that this State of Nature cou'd begin?’ 1835 E. S. Wortley 234 E'en now through my lulled mind doth pass..A mute procession of mysterious things. 1878 R. B. Smith 13 The majestic procession of stately aqueducts which no barbarism has been able to destroy. 1957 W. S. Churchill III. ix. iii. 218 Louis XIV had exhausted the nation in a procession of wars which had lasted for thirty years. 1994 4 Oct. 6/1 Lurid scenes are played out in a bathroom, a summer house, on Dartmoor and in a procession of beds. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > batting collapse society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > ignominious defeat 1891 W. G. Grace iii. 76 West Gloucestershire..[scored] 6 only. Only nine overs were bowled, and it was a most inglorious procession. 1902 10 July 5/2 At the half-mile London were leading by fully three lengths, and from Fawley it was simply a procession, the London pair winning anyhow. 1937 E. Partridge 661/1 Procession, as applied to a race, esp. a boat-race (above all, one in which there are only two crews), implies ‘an ignominious defeat’. 1958 22 Sept. 14/2 Although she [sc. the British yacht] made up half a minute..it was obvious that..it could not now be anything more than a procession. 1977 17 Jan. 7/1 The Australian procession started when Turner was caught by Majid off Sarfraz for 11. 2006 (Nexis) 23 Jan. 73 Leeds 48pts Cardiff 3pts... Marshall began the procession with a drop goal and then had a major hand in his side's first try in the 14th minute. 4. Christian Church. society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for use during procession 1540 in F. Collins (1902) I. 34 To by a processione and other ornamentes to ye said church necessaries, iijs. iiijd. society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > procession society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory > sung in procession 1544 Mandate 19 June in (1940) 107 Resolved to have contynually..generall processions..said and songe with such devocon and reverence as apperteyneth. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. ccccxxxijv By the kyng her fathers commaundement procession was sayde in the vulgare tongue. a1593 C. Marlowe (1616) sig. D2 (stage direct.) Monkes and Friers, singing their Procession. 1594 W. Shakespeare sig. G3v Come let vs hast to London now with speed, That solemne prosessions may be sung. 1904 A. F. Pollard vi. 172 (note) The use of litanies had early grown up in the Western Church and from the fact that they were sung in procession they were often themselves called processions. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay i. x. 12 b Of the further procession of our Nauigation. 1607 T. Walkington 102 There is a double procession or way of choler. 1615 G. Sandys 245 The women in large Carosses, being drawne with the slowest procession. 1663 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in Notes The motion of the Spirit of God, for it is a Procession of his will to an outward Effect. a1763 W. Shenstone (1764) I. 93 And hail the bright procession of the sun. 1814 W. Wordsworth iv. 142 An assured belief That the procession of our fate..is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power. View more context for this quotation 1875 G. H. Lewes I. ii. 393 The flash is antecedent to the sound of the explosion, but the flash is not the cause of the sound; it has no procession in the sound. 1893 T. H. Huxley 36 The suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year. 1941 W. J. Cash iii. i. 190 The larger number of the ‘big houses’..were falling into staring-eyed ruin under the procession of the equinoxes. 1999 (Nexis) 18 May 10 The procession of the seasons through the year. Compounds C1. 1856 17 89 The choir-screens facing the procession-aisle are beautifully treated. 1983 16 June a4 (advt.) We have a wide variety of accessories such as candelabras to light the procession aisles. 1570 J. Foxe (rev. ed.) II. 1735/2 Holy water castyng, procession gaddyng, Mattens mumblyng. 1836 C. Dickens (1837) iii. 27 What a host of shabby, poverty-stricken men, hang about the stage of a large establishment—not regularly engaged actors, but ballet people, procession men, tumblers, and so forth. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1652 (1955) III. 69 Within three miles of Bromely, at a place calld the procession Oake. 1652 xxxviii. f. 205 The twelve Wayters and their Lady came a procession pace, their faces covered with black vailes. 1814 R. Southey xxv. 318 Some sleek and sober mule Long train'd in shackles to procession pace. 2001 (Nexis) 10 Dec. 10 She will travel by limousine at procession pace then travel to Duthie Park to watch various events before visiting Aberdeen University. 1901 3 Mar. 9/1 The German scientific expedition..has discovered in Babylon the ancient ‘procession’ road to Marduk. 1937 13 May 1/8 An estimated two million waited along the procession road back to Buckingham [Palace]. 2003 (Nexis) 20 Jan. The lack of dustbins at Batu Caves, at least in the procession road leading up to the cave temple's main gate. a1483 in (1887) 50 51 (MED) Clerkys..shal..suffer no grave nor pitte to be made in the procession way. 1598 J. Stow 180 The said Chichley gaue more 100.l. to the saide worke, and bare the charges of all the timber worke on the Procession way. 1739 F. Blomefield I. 24 An Annuity of 20s. issuing out of his Meadow in Burston, called Shimpling Close.., upon the Procession Way dividing Burston and Shimpling East. 1935 T. Adams i. i. 68 This street, called the Mesé, formed a triumphal procession way, linking the great forums. 1992 (Soc. for Promotion Hellenic Stud.) No. 38. 59/2 At the NW corner a paved area links in construction with the procession way. C2. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Thaumetopoeidae > member of (processionary moth) > caterpillar of 1850 25 May 327/1 Interesting communications..concerning the procession-caterpillar (Bombyx processionea, Linn.). a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. xiii. 311 A common sight on the Riviera is the large silken canopy spun by the procession caterpillars when they are feeding in companies on the leaves of the Aleppo pine. 1980 F. D. Hockings 42 (caption) Procession Caterpillar. These destructive, hairy caterpillars appear in large numbers. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Ascension > [noun] > week following > days in society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Ascension > [noun] > week following > days in > one of a1450 in G. Owst (1926) v. 201 And there aȝenste we have ii procescion dayes. 1554 E. Bonner sig. A.iiv Celebrating diuine seruice at conueniente houres chiefly vpon sondayes and holye dayes, and procession dayes. 1668 S. Pepys 30 Apr. (1976) IX. 179 To the Dolphin tavern, there to meet our neighbours,..this being procession-day. 1799 J. W. Newman IV. 229/1 A dinner for a charity school, on a procession day, consisting only of legs of mutton, plumb pudding, & table beer—fifty pounds. 1842 J. Scholefield in J. Pilkington 556 (note) Gang-days: procession-days. 1907 T. G. Tucker 103 She..is permitted to look down from the roof into the street on procession days. 2003 (Nexis) 12 June 2 Ms..Lynn, whose house looks out on the statue, has been its ‘guardian’ since 1972, at the request of the local community of nuns, placing flowers there on procession days. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygalaceae (milkwort and allies) > [noun] 1633 T. Johnson (new ed.) ii. clxix. 564 In English we may call it Crosse-floure, Procession-floure, Gang-floure, Rogation-floure, and Milkewort. 1859 Sept. 315 Rogation Week is styled Gang Week... In garlands used on these occasions, the pretty milkwort was much used..and obtained its old English names of Rogation Flower, Gang Flower, and Procession Flower. 1955 G. Grigson 74 Procession flower, Som; robin's eye, Hants. 1993 T. Coffey 145/2 Polygala incarnata. Much milk; flesh-colored. Procession-flower, Rogation-flower. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Thaumetopoeidae > member of (processionary moth) 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence I. iv. 131 The Procession Moth, of which Reaumur has given so interesting an account. 1912 J. R. Ainsworth-Davies tr. W. F. Bruck ii. 33 Cnethocampa pinivora,..(Pine Procession Moth); C. processionea,..(Oak Procession Moth). 1995 76 1509/1 In nature, the leaves of Pistacia palaestina are sometimes skeletonized by caterpillars of the procession moth, Thaumetopoea solitaria. society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Ascension > [noun] > week following 1528 W. Tyndale f. lxxiiijv Saye them a Gospell and all in latyne: yee to the..frutes of the felde in the procession weke. 1690 T. Shadwell i. i. 3 This is a sweet preparation in procession week, to be pruning your self, like an unclean Bird. 1954 D. G. Spicer 267 Rogation week, (Also called Cross Week, Gang Week, Procession Week). Derivatives 1587 G. Turberville f. 108 The Citizens did deeme it good The Nunnes to furnish out With robes and reliques of the church: And in their hands to beare Their painted Gods, procession wise. 1599 R. Hakluyt tr. Odoric of Pordenone in (new ed.) II. i. 56 A great company of virgins go procession-wise two and two in a rank singing before him. 1865 E. Caswall iv. 58 Anon they rise, And through the ruin'd Nave procession-wise With miserere chant. 1909 J. Payne 106 You passed me by, procession-wise, and vanished, never stopping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). processionv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: procession n. Etymology: < procession n. Compare post-classical Latin processionare to go in procession (1389, 1432 in British sources). With senses 2a and 3a compare earlier processioning n. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > give honour to [verb (transitive)] > by procession society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (transitive)] > go through in procession > carry in procession 1546 J. Bale f. 72 v Whan their feastfull dayes come, they [sc. saints] are yet in the papystyck churches of Englande with no small solempnyte, mattensed, massed, candeled, lyghted, processyoned..and worshypped. 1731 J. Morgan (new ed.) xiii. 534 Accordingly he was Processioned, and preceded by some Elect, with Dishes; who begged of all they met. 1837 T. Carlyle II. iii. vii. 199 Jean Jacques, too,..must be dug up from Ermenonville, and processioned, with pomp,..to the Pantheon of the Fatherland. 1891 21 Sept. 1/2 Senator Kyle..has had no idea of being paraded and processioned through the state. 1936 11 Aug. 4/3 Human beings are processioned to the grave. 1991 Fall 22 Prior to the shooting the candidate is processioned around the outside and then the inside of the midewiwin house. 2. U.S.the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of > by perambulation 1691 in W. W. Hening (1823) III. 82 The time for processioning lands hereafter [shall] be between the last day of 7ber [Sept.] and the last day of March. 1710 (1759) 292 The bounds of every persons land shall be processioned or gone round, and the landmarks renewed... Such processioning shall be made in every precinct. 1727 in (1898) 34 To procession lands on the South Side Bristoll parrish. 1796 in L. P. Summers 861 The precincts formerly laid off for processioning the lands within this County are so large that [etc.]. 1883 E. Ingle in (1885) 3rd Ser. ii. 64 Once in every four years the vestry, by order of the county court, divided the parish into precincts, and appointed two persons in each precinct to ‘procession’ the lands. 1949 6 430 Subsequently, the court was ordered to direct the county surveyor and a jury to lay out and procession the lands in question and to charge the recalcitrant owner for it. 2004 595 572 Bobby Todd Jordan applied to have his property line with adjoining landowners processioned. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > form continuous boundary [verb (intransitive)] > determine boundary 1724 in (1898) 15 It is ordered that Godfry Fowler Junr & Mark Moor procession from Nooning Creek to the Extent of the P[ar]ish. 1795 in L. P. Summers 859 [The] said processioners are to proceed to procession within their respective precincts on the first Monday in October. 3. society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go in procession society > faith > worship > other practices > carry out other practices [verb (intransitive)] > make procession society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (intransitive)] > go on parade or procession 1706 W. Kennett 20 We..have despised their vain ways of magnifying every Action; of Processioning and Singing for every little Advantage. 1735 J. Morgan tr. P. de la Motte 140 Those good Fathers, separating, conducted even smal Companies of those Slaves to their own Homes..; every where processioning and collecting Alms. 1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in (1826) I. 89 As he turned out of the gate, he met the Prior..and a long train processioning, all in full ceremony, bearing precious reliques, to welcome his Highness. 1884 29 July 5/e You can hold meetings in your own barracks and you can procession through the streets. 1969 A. Cornelisen vi. 203 They processioned down the Corso. 1997 S. Aylett in S. Champion 287 A convoy of cars processioned through darkness. society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse or go round in procession 1887 25 Oct. 4/1 Meetings of the unemployed were held yesterday in Trafalgar-square, and certain streets of the West-end were processioned by the crowd, with a red flag at their head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE v.1546 |
