Definitions for recessionals

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recessionals re·ces·sion·al

Spelling: [ri-sesh-uh-nl]

IPA: /rɪˈsɛʃ ə nl/

Recessionals is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1494 anagrams from letters in recessionals (aceeilnorsss).

Definitions for recessionals

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 recessionals

First recorded in 1865-70; recession¹ + -al¹

Examples for recessionals

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

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

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

Kames are commonly associated with terminal and recessional moraines.

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

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

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

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

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

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