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Recessional

adjective
1.
Of or relating to receding.
noun
1.
The withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service.  Synonym: recession.
2.
A hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw.



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"Recessional" Quotes from Famous Books



... so much processional as recessional about marriage at present. In navigating the stormy waters of life in the realistic pages of the census reports, it is not till we reach the comparatively serene, landlocked years from forty-five to fifty-four that we find ourselves ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... Dardanelles campaign. No abatement of the plague of questions is yet noticeable, but some slight excuse may be found for the "ragging" of the Censor. This anonymous worthy, it appears, recently excised the words "and the Kings" from the well-known line in Mr. Kipling's "Recessional": ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch
... recessional, and then the crowds of students flooded the corridors and circulated under the fresh foliage of the campus. Randolph and Medora Phillips passed out with the rest of the assemblage. In the midst of one of the avenues of elms they ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional. After that my uncle tried to detain me, to warn and scold me; but he no longer used physical force, and nothing but that would have held me. At the door I asked one of the ushers what had become of ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair


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