processioning, vbl. n.
(prəʊˈsɛʃənɪŋ)
[f. procession n. or v. + -ing1.]
The action of going in procession.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 57 You Pilgrims..weare the plants of your feete,..by bare-legd processioning..to the Sepulchre. 1769 Colman Man & Wife i. Dram. Wks. 1787 II. 240 There is eating and drinking, and processioning, and masquerading, and horse-racing, and fire-works—So gay—and as merry as the day is long. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iv. iv, Next are processionings along the Boulevards. 1884 Manch. Exam. 18 June 4/6 No harm in allowing cyclists to pass through Victoria Park,..on condition that they did not there engage in racing or processioning. |
b. spec. = perambulation 3;
esp. in N. America: see
procession v. 3.
| 1710 [see procession v. 3]. 1893 Blomfield Hist. Fritwell 21 The ceremony of perambulating the boundaries of a parish (‘processioning’, as it was commonly called in later times) is an extremely old one. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 544 In case an altercation arose between two neighbors in the course of the processioning, as to the boundaries of their estates, the two surveyors..were required..to draw again the lines in dispute. |
| attrib. 1663 Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 510 The parishioners..made their processioning cross [upon a wall]. |