Definitions for recessional

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recessional re·ces·sion·al

Spelling: [ri-sesh-uh-nl]

IPA: /rɪˈsɛʃ ə nl/

Recessional is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1440 anagrams from letters in recessional (aceeilnorss).

Definitions for recessional

noun

1. a hymn or other piece of music played at the end of a service while the congregation is filing out.

adjective

1. of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
2. of or relating to a recess, as of a legislative body.

Origin of recessional

First recorded in 1865-70; recession¹ + -al¹

Examples for recessional

We offer this as the best portrait of Mr. Kipling obtainable, and think in no other form is the “recessional” so desirable.

At last she laid the glasses on my knee and began to recite Kipling's "recessional."

He rose to his climax with his "recessional," while I was still an undergraduate.

I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional.

The recessional is played, and the procession goes out in reversed order.

Kames are commonly associated with terminal and recessional moraines.

There is not so much processional as recessional about marriage at present.

The recessional is one of the most popular poems of this century.

"recessional" is indeed a majestic and noble poem—a prayer in verse.

The organ sounds, with voices of choir chanting the recessional.