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Processional means “for a procession” or “used while people walk in a slow, formal line.” A procession is that ceremonial walk: a wedding party down the aisle, a choir and priests into a church, graduates into a hall.
Processional means行進用的意思是 “for a procession”「用於遊行隊伍的」 or “used while people walk in a slow, formal line.”或「人們緩慢、正式地列隊行走時所用的」。A procession is that ceremonial walk遊行/行進儀式指的就是這種正式的隊伍行走: a wedding party down the aisle新人隊伍走過紅毯, a choir and priests into a church唱詩班和神父走進教堂, graduates into a hall畢業生走進禮堂。
A processional hymn is the song played while that walking happens. A processional cross is the cross carried at the front.
A processional hymn行進聖歌 is the song played while that walking happens就是在這種列隊行走時演奏的歌曲。A processional cross行進十字架 is the cross carried at the front就是走在隊伍最前面被舉著的那個十字架。
It is a church-and-ceremony word, quite formal. You would not use it for people shuffling into a supermarket.
It is a church-and-ceremony word它是個跟教堂、儀式有關的詞, quite formal語氣相當正式。You would not use it你不會用這個詞 for people shuffling into a supermarket來形容大家拖著腳步走進超市。
Though actually, the same spelling can also name the piece of music itself (“the processional”); this sense is the describing one — relating to, or used in, the walk.
Though actually不過其實, the same spelling can also name the piece of music itself同樣的拼法也可以直接指那首曲子本身 (“the processional”)(「the processional」這首行進曲); this sense is the describing one而這裡講的這個意思是形容詞的用法——relating to, or used in, the walk指的是跟那段列隊行走有關,或用在那段行走時的。
組成procession（正式的列隊行走）+ -al（關於／用在那件事上）
同家族的字
- processionprocessional is the adjective from procession
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
processionaladj
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Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.
- The publick Processional-way to the Chapter-house at Windesor, used time out of mind, led from the Presence-Chamber, down through the Cloister, and the great Gate of the Kings Lodging, into the upper Ward of the Castle, thence through the middle Ward, and part of the lower, to and through the passage, between the East-end of the Chappel, and Tomb-house, and thence into the Chapter-house, situate at the North-East Corner of St. George’s Chappel.
- 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura, Book 4, in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., pp. 170-171, The nuptial day arrives. The virgin, preceded by a splendid retinue, and followed by her mother, her female relatives, and the damsels of her tribe, issues from the tent of her father. […] The women then followed with solemn and processional steps.
processionalnoun
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A hymn or other music used during a procession; prosodion.
- A perfectly drilled wedding procession, like a military one, should move forward in perfect step, rising and falling in a block or unit. To secure perfection of detail, the bars of the processional may be counted so that the music comes to an end at precisely the moment the bride and groom stand side by side at the chancel steps.
- […] a rainy Palm Sunday. […] At Grace Church on-the-Hill, the children and the acolytes stood huddled in the narthex; holding their palm fronds, they resembled tourists who’d landed in the tropics on an unseasonably cold day. The organist chose Brahms for the processional—“O Welt ich muss dich lassen”; “O world I must leave you.”
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A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner.
- He saw the processional of world brotherhood tramp steadily through the paling sunset; saffron-vestured Mandarin marching by flax-faced Norseman and languid South Sea Islander—the diverse peoples toward whom he had always yearned.
- And Eugene watched the slow fusion of the seasons; he saw the royal processional of the months; he saw the summer light eat like a river into dark; he saw dark triumph once again; and he saw the minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death.
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
- [47] Item that the Churchwardens of euery paryshe shall delyuer vnto our visitours the inuentories of vestmentes, copes, and other ornamentes, plate, bookes, and specyallye of Grayles, Couchers, Legendes, Processionalles, Hymnalles, Manuelles, Portuesses, and suche lyke apperteynyng to theyr Church.
- c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory, London: R. Royston and T. Williams, 1671, p. 114, By the Use of Sarum (for ’tis almost the only place where I can hear any thing of this; that of York in their Processional seems to take no notice of it) upon the Eve to Innocents Day the Chorister-Bishop was to go in solemn Procession with his fellows […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。