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Word Meanings - RECESSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.

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  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • ROBORATION
    The act of strengthening. Coles.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • ROBERDSMAN; ROBERTSMAN
    A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • ROBAND
    See ROPERAND
  • RECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
  • ROBINIA
    A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America .
  • RECESSION
    The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • ROBALO; ROBALITO
    Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidæ, esp. the largest species , a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to.
  • CHOIR
    The chancel. Choir organ , one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary
  • ROBLE
    The California white oak .
  • ROBBERY
    The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
  • RETURNER
    One who returns.
  • ROBERT
    See HERB
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • ROB
    The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It
  • ROBBIN
    A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. Simmonds.
  • ROBINET
    The chaffinch; -- called also roberd. The European robin. 2. A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
  • OPPROBRIOUS
    1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
  • WAKE-ROBIN
    Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
  • DISAPPROBATORY
    Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • CORROBOREE
    1. A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. 2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. 3. A
  • PROBACY
    Proof; trial. Chaucer.
  • AEROBIC
    Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also, pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. -- A`ër*o"bic*al*ly , adv.
  • PROBATION
    1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
  • OPPROBRIUM
    Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
  • ACROBATIC
    Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • PROBOSCIS
    A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
  • PROBOSCIDIFERA
    An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
  • GROBIAN
    A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.
  • HYDROBIPLANE
    A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
  • BEROB
    To rob; to plunder.
  • EXPROBRATION
    Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.
  • STROBILA
    A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ,
  • CIRROBRANCHIATA
    A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
  • PROBATOR
    One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence. (more info) 1. An examiner; an approver. Maydman.
  • MICROBAROGRAPH
    An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
  • PROBE
    1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam.

 

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