procession

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PROCES'SION, noun [Latin processio. See Proceed.] 1. The act of proceeding or issuing. 2. A train of persons walking, or riding on horseback or in vehicles, in a formal march, or moving with ceremonious solemnity; as a procession of clergy and people in the Romish church; a triumphal procession; a funeral procession Him all his train Follow'd in bright procession
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