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UK
/ɹɪsˈɛʃənəl/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to receding
NOUN
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
How To Use recessional In A Sentence
- _Kindly tell me if the Mr. KIPLING who has been making such a splendid speech about the Cabinet and their mercenariness and the treacherous nature of the Irish is the same Mr. KIPLING who wrote "The Recessional" and "Without Benefit of Clergy"? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
- After the recessional we slip away from Mama and Papa, who will loiter by the door to exchange pleasantries with Father Friend.
- Large quantities of glacier meltwater deposited various kinds of material, the most important of which is called outwash (advance or recessional), consisting mostly of sands and gravels.
- She has assembled a useful group of pieces suitable for church or Sunday school preludes, offertories or recessionals.
- Many home sellers remain stuck in a recessional rut.
- So, in a nutshell, if a galaxy's peculiar velocity is toward us and larger than its Hubble recessional velocity, then its light will appear blueshifted.
- On the one hand, the Bank Panic of 2008, started in and by America, will continue to ravage the recessional economy. Pravda predicts
- When the recessional began, his arm helped to lift her, to move her out of the pew. FAMILY PICTURES
- Thus beaches are correlated with recessional moraines, and the beach elevation remains the same until the ice barrier retreats to a position where a new lake outlet is exposed.
- The rate of change in the direction of the rotational axis is the ratio of torque to angular momentum and so gives a value for the precessional constant.