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recessional

/ri-sesh-uh-nl/US // rɪˈsɛʃ ə nl //UK // (rɪˈsɛʃənəl) //

退场仪式,退场礼,退场式,退场

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service.
    • : of or relating to a recess, as of a legislative body.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a hymn or other piece of music played at the end of a service while the congregation is filing out.

Examples

  • The very next year The Recessional stirred the religious consciousness of the whole English-speaking race.

  • A backward glance now and then showed that she was not watching the recessional as closely as she was listening to him.

  • In the meantime, the recessional frenzy extended all over the State, and every bank was obliged to close its doors.

  • Both literatures have the sanctuary hymn, and the processional and the recessional hymn.

  • Surely nothing could be more appropriate for Americans to sing at the present time than the Recessional.