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Definition of Recessionals
1. recessional [n] - See also: recessional
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recessionals
Literary usage of Recessionals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"like discarded baggage along the march of a retreating army, bear witness everywhere
to tragic recessionals. Every country whose history we examine proves ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"... Te Deums, processionals, and recessionals followed each other through his
aching head and came to his lips in broken snatches. ..."
3. The Technique of Pageantry by Linwood Taft (1921)
"The breaking of ranks, prematurely, robs the finale of all dignity and should be
prevented by all means. The author recalls two such recessionals that show ..."
4. A Hundred Years of Music in America: An Account of Musical Effort in America by Granville L. Howe, William Smith Babcock Mathews (1889)
"in the strict gradation of the singers as to size and the '' keeping step '' to
the cadence of the hymn in the processionals and recessionals, in slow and ..."
5. Community Drama and Pageantry by Mary Porter Beegle, Jack Randall Crawford (1916)
"The far-away perspective may be used for entrances and exits, for processions
and recessionals, for Indians or troops approaching to the attack, ..."
6. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Psalms by Thomas Chalmers Murray (1881)
"The treatment of the older poem is not unlike that of the well known " Mother
dear, Jerusalem," selections from which are often made use of for recessionals ..."
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