noun
definition
Music played during a church recession.
adjective
definition
Of or relating to recession or withdrawal, particularly at the end of a religious service or wedding.
example
A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
Examples of recessional in a Sentence
Ironically, we had chosen that song as our recessional before the burning incident.
The recessional hymn at funerals is almost always ' God be with you ' til we meet again '.
But as yet, the recessional or approaching movements of only a few hundred stars have been registered; and this store of information is scanty indeed compared with the needs of research.
All contain recessional moraines associated with Late Midlandian ice retreat.