procession

Etymology

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

noun

1. The act of progressing or proceeding.
   From whence it came to pass in the primitive times , that the Latin fathers taught expressly the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
2. A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
   a procession of mourners
   the Lord Mayor's procession
   The final fifty miles of the race was a procession with little change in the relative positions of the cars […] 1914, Westways, volume 6, page 7
3. A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
4. (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
   In many a form I see thee oft In myriad manners are thy praises told In old processions carved on Grecian urns 1894, Orby Shipley, Carmina Mariana
5. (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
   Before he closed and opened his eyes, the bails on the wicket behind Johnny Masih were shattered. That was the beginning of a procession. The second ball clean bowled the batsman. The third ball was a catch for the wicketkeeper. 2012, K. L. Mohana Varma, Cricket-Indo: The Story of an Indo-Pak One-Day Cricket Turf War, page 205
   Scotland moved nicely to 45 without loss before I took the first wicket and then it became a procession. 2015, Steve Dolman, Edwin Smith: A Life in Derbyshire Cricket, page 36

verb

1. (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
2. (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
3. (transitive, law, US, North Carolina, Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
   To procession the lands of such persons as desire it. 1856, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary, PROCESSIONING