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Definition of Recessional

1. Adjective. Of or relating to receding.

2. Noun. The withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service.

3. Noun. A hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw.

Definition of Recessional

1. a. Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.

Definition of Recessional

1. Noun. Music played during a church recession. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recessional

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recessional

receptour recepts recertification recertifications recertified recertifies recertify recertifying recess recess appointment

recess appointments recessed recesses recessing recession recessional (current term) recessional march recessionals recessionary recessionista

recessionistas recessionlike recessionproof recessions recessitivity recessive recessive character recessive gene recessive inheritance recessive oncogene

Literary usage of Recessional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with by Waitman Barbe (1909)
"The recessional hymn is the hymn sung after the service as the singers return in procession to the robing room; and Mr. Kipling's poem was written to be ..."

2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1902)
"recessional moraines, or moraine-like accumulations of till, have been observed at a ... The average width of the recessional moraine is about half a mile, ..."

3. Glaciation of the Puget Sound Region by J. Harlen Bretz (1913)
"recessional MORAINES AND OUTWASH OF THE EASTERN LOBE. INTRODUCTORY. For the successful delineation of the systematic relations of moraine ridges, ..."

4. The Glacial Geology of New Jersey: By Rollin D. Salisbury, Assisted by Henry by Rollin D. Salisbury, Henry Barnard Kümmel, Charles Emerson Peet, George N. Knapp (1902)
"recessional moraines, or moraine-like accumulations of till. have been observed at a ... The average width of the recessional moraine is about half a mile, ..."

5. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"recessional. BY RUDYARD KIPLING. [December 80, 1865-.] [In the London Times, at the end of the Queen's Jubilee, 1897.] GOD of our fathers, known of old, ..."

6. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"The "recessional" was written for the occasion by Rudyard Kipling (1865—). ... recessional RUDYARD KIPLING God of our fathers, known of old — Lord of our ..."

7. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"The "recessional" was written for the occasion ... recessional RUDYARD KIPLING God of our fathers, known of old— Lord of our far flung battle-line— Beneath ..."

8. One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement (1920)
"... recessional RUDYARD KIPLING (Born December 30, 1865; — God of our fathers, known of old—• Lord of our far-flung battle line— Lord God of Hosts, ..."

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