processional

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=ces=sion=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

processional, a. 

 Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.  [1913 Webster]
"The processional services became more frequent."  [1913 Webster]

processional, n. [F. processionnal, LL. processionale.].

•  A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.  J. Gregory.  [1913 Webster]
•  A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

processional, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of processions.
2 used, carried, or sung in processions.
--n. Eccl. an office-book of processional hymns etc.

Etymology

med.L processionalis (adj.), -ale (n.) (as PROCESSION)

THESAURUS

processional

agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, pax, reciting the rosary, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary

ROGET THESAURUS

processional

Rite

N rite, ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial, ordinance, observance, function, duty, form, formulary, solemnity, sacrament, incantation, service, psalmody, ministration, preaching, preachment, predication, sermon, homily, lecture, discourse, pastoral, baptism, christening, chrism, circumcision, baptismal regeneration, font, confirmation, imposition of hands, laying on of hands, ordination, excommunication, Bar Mitzvah, Bas Mitzvah, Bris, Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion, the sacrament, the holy sacrament, celebration, high celebration, missa cantata, asperges, offertory, introit, consecration, consubstantiation, transubstantiation, real presence, elements, mass, high mass, low mass, dry mass, matrimony, burial, visitation of the sick, seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession, maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes, penance, telling of beads, processional, thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion, relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, patera, eileton, Holy Grail, prayer machine, prayer wheel, Sangraal, urceus, ritualism, ceremonialism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, ritualist, sabbatarian, holyday, feast, fast, Sabbath, Pentecost, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Passion week, Holy week, Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide, agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas, All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day, Ramadan, Ramazan, Bairam Passover, Shabuoth, Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, Rosh Hashana, New Year, Hanukkah, Chanukkah, Feast of Lights, Purim, Feast of lots, ritual, ritualistic, ceremonial, baptismal, eucharistical, paschal, what art thou, thou idol ceremony?.