Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or suitable for a procession.
 - noun A book containing the rituals observed during a religious procession.
 - noun A piece played or sung when the clergy enter a church at the beginning of a service.
 - noun Music intended to be played or sung during a procession.
 
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a procession; consisting in, having the movement of, or used in a procession: as, a processional hymn.
 - noun An office-book containing the offices with their antiphons, hymns, rubrical directions, etc., for use in processional litanies and other religious processions.
 - noun A hymn sung during a religious procession, particularly during the entry of the clergy and choir into the church before divine service.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
 - noun A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession.
 - adjective Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective   Of, pertaining to, or used during a 
procession  - noun   A 
hymn or othermusic used during a procession; prosodion - noun Roman Catholicism  A service book relating to 
ecclesiastical processions. 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intended for use in a procession
 - adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a procession
 - noun religious music used in a procession
 
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Examples
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early-fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Early fourteenth-century processional from a female Dominican house in Strasbourg.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
 
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