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Recessional   Listen
adjective
Recessional  adj.  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.
Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room; a recessional.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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



Words linked to "Recessional" :   hymn, recession



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