recessionaladj.n.

1867 Ch. Opinion 13 Apr. 15 The service concluded with a recessional hymn.

1882 Homilet. Monthly Apr. 410 The ritualist..orders his processional and recessional movements with toll of bell and thunder of organ.

1904 Trained Nurse & Hospital Rev. Apr. 251/2 Soon I would see the choir boys, whose recessional music had so often been wafted through the windows.

1932 G. K. Chesterton Coll. Poems (1933) 45 We fancied heaven preferring much Your rowdiest song..to such Very recessional repentance.

1973 Times 15 Nov. 6/6 Timothy Farrell, sub organist of Westminster Abbey, thundered recessional music.

2006 Wichita (Kansas) Eagle (Nexis) 18 Apr. The recessional music should be joyful and festive, in celebration of the marriage.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 2/2 The Government..continues to pile up work for the Recess and next Session. The recessional work promised by the Home Secretary [etc.].

1897 Science 16 Apr. 623/1 By slow degrees the existence of an outer margin and various terminal or recessional moraines has been proved for the United States.

1918 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1916–17 28 34 The terminal moraine..is to a large extent buried below coarse gravelly deposits of the subsequent recessional stage.

1945 Amer. Antiq. 10 285 They are arranged in three rows, each of which follows the exact contour of one of the old recessional terraces of the lake.

1983 J. McPhee In Suspect Terrain 191 Harvard was, at core, a drumlin, a glacial coprolite, packed in recessional outwash.

2003 Arctic, Antarctic & Alpine Res. 35 397/1 Because the small ridges in the forefield of the Robertson Glacier are poorly formed..they are interpreted as recessional features.

1925 Amer. Math. Monthly 32 223 Shapley was the first to point out and insist upon the significance of the systematic recessional motions of the spiral nebulæ.

1955 Sci. Monthly Oct. 168/2 Hubble conducted a series of investigations on the red-shift of the distant galaxies, an observation that is usually interpreted as evidence of recessional velocity.

1965 Philos. Sci. 32 21 In the theory, constant density is maintained as a result of the balance between the creation of matter and the recessional motion of the galaxies with respect to any given point in space.

2005 New Scientist (Nexis) 19 Nov. 36 An example..was Edwin Hubble's discovery in 1929 that the distance to galaxies are approximately proportional to their recessional velocities, a fact later used to support the notion that the universe is expanding.

1929 Manitoba Free Press 11 July 16/6 The broadening influences on the Toronto stock exchange stood..firm today in the face of steady afternoon recessional slipping on the New York exchange.

1976 Times 16 June 3/3 The chamber of commerce..thinks that this impression stems from the recessional trend, now changing for the better.

1992 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 45 680/2 The likely impact of the unemployment rate on the unemployment spell, particularly in the recessional year of 1990.

2002 Ventura County (Calif.) Star (Nexis) 26 July b7 Burton makes many pro-labor statements that are illogical, especially in this recessional economy.

1867 in Life Jas. Skinner (1884) xiii. 253 To crown all, we had ‘O Paradise!’ as a recessional.

1929 A. T. Quiller-Couch Poems 140 The organ sounds, with voices of choir chanting the recessional.

1946 Catal. Copyright Entries (U.S. Copyright Office) 40 41 Armstrong, Walter William... Recessional no. 1, in G major.

1976 Columbus (Montana) News 27 May 6/4 Karen Hektner..played the processional and recessional on the organ.

2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 39 The recessional was a piece unfamiliar to him, accompanied by a consort of viols.

1897 J. M. DeGarmo Hicksite Quakers & Doctr. xi. 126 Processionals and recessionals,..copes and albs and chasubles and all the other ritualistic paraphernalia.

1915 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 5 31 From the early eighteenth century, when the Turks began their slow recessional in the Balkan Peninsula [etc.].

1953 Music Educators Jrnl. 40 72/2 Do you have processionals and recessionals for your Christmas concert? They will be more impressive if the students carry candles.

2000 New Yorker 16 Oct. 217/2 In mid-August, Clinton invited me to watch him begin his recessional.

1925 W. J. Miller Introd. Physical Geol. viii. 255 Recessional moraines, forming a great succession of curving ridges, are wonderfully displayed to the south of Lakes Michigan and Erie.

1976 C. L. Matsch N. Amer. & Great Ice Age vii. 84 Recessional moraines are valuable aids to the glacial geologist because their spacing might allow the calculation of rates of melting if appropriate materials are available for radiocarbon dating.

1995 A. M. Cvancara Field Man. Amateur Geologist (rev. ed.) iii. 26 If the ice front recedes and restabilizes, a recessional moraine..—up-valley from the end moraine—is laid down.