Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A survey and inspection of boundaries periodically performed in some of the American colonies by the local authorities, for the purpose of ascertaining and perpetuating correct boundaries of the various landowners.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U. S. A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d
procession .
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- verb Present participle of
procession . - noun US A
proceeding prescribed bystatute forascertaining andfixing the boundaries of land.
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Examples
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They exercised considerable civil authority, such as processioning the bounds, or beating the bounds, of all farms and plantations, and the making levies for the support of paupers and unfortunate children.
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At midnight the Sandal came to them, and up they got, and having well whetted and set their razors, and been a-processioning, they clapped the tables over themselves, and like wire-drawers under their work fell to it as aforesaid.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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At midnight the Sandal came to them, and up they got, and having well whetted and set their razors, and been a-processioning, they clapped the tables over themselves, and like wire-drawers under their work fell to it as aforesaid.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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To prevent "the inconvenience of clandestine surveigh," the Assembly in 1661/62 enacted the law of processioning.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson
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A move was then made to the promenade, where Mrs. Edwards drove the first pile in the new pier, and, after much processioning, the great assembly sat down at the Belle Vue Hotel for a banquet of which, surely, the like has never been seen in the town since!
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For administration of processioning, the county court was to order the vestry to divide each parish into as many precincts as necessary, and the time set in 1661/62 for processioning was between
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson
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Ippolita, who began her day's processioning with music and flowers, ended it mostly in tears and stripes.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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More speeches, luncheon, toasts and processioning _ab lib_ and "so home."
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To assure enforcement of the law, provisions for penalties were included -- 1,200 pounds of tobacco for any vestry not ordering the processioning and 350 pounds of tobacco for individuals who failed to participate without good reason.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson
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Every fourth year the vestry divided the parish into precincts and appointed two honest and intelligent freeholders of each precinct to see that the bounds of each farm or plantation were processioned, and that the reports of such surveying, or processioning, were registered with the parish clerk.
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