Definition of succession

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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..

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Troll :: Troll (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
Alternate :: Alternate (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly..
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..
Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Thick :: Thick (superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring..
Piecemeal :: Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Stream :: Stream (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand..
Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles
Bang :: Bang (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano..
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..
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.
Music :: Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.
Peal :: Peal (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc..
Suit :: Suit (n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t..
Phyllomorphosis :: Phyllomorphosis (n.) The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons.
Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..
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