recessional
- n the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- n a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- a of or relating to receding
- Retracing this great march, which was both a recessional and an inaugural, the Durants again demonstrate their immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never .
- But in the long recessional from the '60s, and especially during the Reagan years, the moral will to advance the cause of blacks through Government action has waned, a function of .
- With Viet Nam out of the way at last, a measured American recessional resumes with negotiations on trade and troop reductions that may well have a profoundand perhaps .