Crossword clues for recessional
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to recession or withdrawal. n. Music played during a church recession.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to receding
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
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
"Recessional" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which he composed for the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Recessional ( 1994), the final novel by American author James A. Michener, centers on life in a fictional retirement home and hospice known as The Palms.
Disgraced obstetrician Andy Zorn's life changes when he is hired by John Taggart, the head of a retirement home chain, to run his financially unstable Florida operation called The Palms. Andy must agree to sign on as a business manager only, and is in no way authorized to provide medical advice or treatment to the residents of the geriatric care facility. This restriction eats away at him as difficult situations develop and call out to his medical expertise and sense of professional obligation. As Andy struggles to keep The Palms, his reputation, and hope afloat, he faces politics and morality, romance and bitterness, and a litigious scandal from his own past that threatens to ignite controversy wherever he goes.
Though not as epic in scope as some of Michener's other works, Recessional follows a familiar narrative rhythm that Michener largely maintained throughout his career. Michener's training at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania was in history and sociology so he was well qualified to write on this subject especially as he was 87 when the book was published. Although this was his final novel, it was not his last book; his last book was A Century of Sonnets, a collection of his poetry published in 1997, the year he died, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The novel educates as it tells a series of interconnected vignettes that collectively paint a larger picture of life in the retirement industry, both from a business point of view, and from that of the residents themselves as they seek meaning and companionship in the twilight of their lives.
Michener lived at Allegro retirement center in St. Petersburg, FL, during the writing and researching of the book; Allegro was then attached to Eckerd College where Michener used the school and library facilities for additional data gathering. Michener endowed a writing school at Eckerd College which was founded by Eckerd Drug and is the site of the 2011 annual meeting of the James A. Michener Society.
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.