Definition of succession

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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..

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Consecution :: Consecution (n.) A succession or series of any kind.
Interchange :: Interchange (n.) Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.
Devolve :: Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank..
Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession..
Round :: Round (n.) Rotation, as in office; succession..
Train :: Train (v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Serial :: Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical..
Clatter :: Clatter (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds..
Troll :: Troll (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
Alternation :: Alternation (n.) The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear..
Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.
Melodious :: Melodious (a.) Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..
Subsellia :: Subsecutive (a.) Following in a train or succession.
Piecemeal :: Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Section :: Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..
Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..
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