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A hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
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recessional
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service [syn: recession ] a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Recessional may refer to: Recessional hymn Recessional (novel) , a novel by James A. Michener, published in 1994 "Recessional" (poem) , a poem by Rudyard Kipling "Recessional", a song by Vienna Teng
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, from recession + -al (1). As a noun, "hymn sung while the clergy and choir are leaving church," 1864, with -al (2).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to recession or withdrawal. n. Music played during a church recession.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
recessional \re*ces"sion*al\ (r[-e]*s[e^]sh"[u^]n*al), n. a hymn or other piece of music sung or played while a church congregation is leaving a service, or a choir is returning to the cloak room; a recessional hymn .
Usage examples of recessional.
When the final recessional hymn began, she slipped her purse strap over her shoulder and stood with the congregation, a hymnal in her hands.
We all join the repeated processional and recessional throughout the season.
His hair and forehead furnished a recessional note in a personality that was in all other respects obtrusive and assertive.
I put up the ceiling and the floor, I laid the whole floor in here, end up staring out the window at that old man out there with his damned recessional toward the garbage can trying to look useful till I, till he finally drove me out of the house.
The organist started up the recessional hymn, and Scott and Amanda marched triUmphantly down the aisle, all smiles.
After the recessional, I wait where I am until the others have left, and then I go out the door.
A final prayer and the recessional, with six Johnny Gorilla lookalikes carrying out the coffin and probably having good cause to be sadder than anyone else in the chapel and I clicked off the television.
I even held Anse refraining still, not that I was holding him recessional, but as though nothing else had ever been.
The whole modern-day picture of extragalactic astronomy has been built around the key assumption that the redshifts are Doppler effects and indicate recessional velocity.