English to English Dictionary -successive

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Succession :: Successful (a.) Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters..

Succession :: Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology..

Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

Succession :: Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order..

Successional :: Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Successionist :: Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

Successive :: Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid..

Successive :: Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer..

Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..

Successiveness :: Successively (adv.) In a successive manner.