processioner
(prəʊˈsɛʃənə(r))
Also 5 -yonar(e.
[f. procession + -er; so OF. processionnier (book, c 1469 in Godef.).]
1. A person going in procession. ? Obs.
| 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 17914 Wherfore, befull [it] is to frerys, sythe they be no processionerys, to get theyr lyvelode wher they may. 1612 Shelton Quix. iv. xxv. (1896) II. 279 The Processioners returning into their former order, did prosecute their way. a 1739 Jarvis Quix. iv. xxv, The processioners seeing them running towards them. |
† 2. a. Eccl. An office-book used in processions: = processional n. 1. Obs.
| 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wü lcker 720/1 Hoc processionale, a processyonar. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 414/2 Processyonal, or pr[oc]essyonare. 1542 in Archæologia (1887) L. i. 46 Item v. processioners written and iij prynted. 1558 in Sussex Archæol. Coll. XLI. 41, ij masse bokes, one pressessyner. 1566 in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 32 The mass bookes, the processioners, the manuell, and all such peltrei of the popes sinfull service. |
b. A processional (candlestick). Obs.
| 1466 Will of Mortymer (Somerset Ho.), Par candelabrorum de laton vocat. le precessionars. |
3. A processionary caterpillar.
| 1743 Zollman in Phil. Trans. XLII. 458 They may be ranked among the Processioners, or those that follow one another. |
4. U.S. (See quots., and cf. procession v. 3.)
| 1731 Bristol Parish (Va.) Vestry Bk. (1898) 59 Order'd that George Tucker be Prosessioner in the Stead of Robert Tucker junr who is Lame and cannott Officiate as prosessioner. 1795 in L. P. Summers Ann. Southwest Va. (1929) 463 The said Processioners to examine their business the first day of February next. 1828 W. Bolling in Va. Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1938) XLVI. 321 Attended the processioners around my lines..to the upper line between Dr. Watkins and myself. 1860 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Processioner, an officer in Kentucky, and possibly in other States, whose duty it is to determine and mark out the bounds of lands. 1864 Webster, Processioner..2. An officer appointed to procession lands. (Local in North Carolina and Tennessee.) Burrill. 1890 in Cent. Dict. |