My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with
my blood.
Beau. & Fl.
Suc*cess"ful (?), 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.
Welcome, nephews, from successful wars.
Shak.
Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate.
-- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
Suc*ces"sion (?), n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See Succeed.] 1.
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.
2. 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.
He was in the succession to an earldom.
Macaulay.
3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long
succession must ensue." Milton.
4. 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.
You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in
Denmark.
Shak.
The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the
dispute about the succession.
Macaulay.
5. 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.
6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.]
Milton.
Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical. -- Succession
duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its
value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous
owner. [Eng.] -- Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops,
under Rotation.
Suc*ces"sion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a
regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. --
Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
Suc*ces"sion*ist, 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.
Suc*ces"sive (?), a. [Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.] 1. 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.
Send the successive ills through ages down.
Prior.
2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance;
inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a
successive empire. [Obs.] Shak.
Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5.
Suc*ces"sive*ly, adv. In a successive manner.
The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo,
and violet.
Sir I. Newton.
Suc*ces"sive*ness, n. The quality or state of being successive.
Suc*cess"less (?), a. Having no success.
Successless all her soft caresses prove.
Pope.
-- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
Suc*ces"sor (?), n. [OE. successour, OF. successur, successor, F.
successeur, L. successor. See Succeed.] One who succeeds or follows;
one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like
part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of
a deceased king. Chaucer.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without
naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond
as the corporation subsists.
Blackstone.
Suc*cid"u*ous (?), a. [L. succiduus, fr. succidere to fall under.]
Ready to fall; falling. [R.]
Suc*cif"er*ous (?), a. [L. succus, sucus, juice, sap + -ferous.]
Producing or conveying sap.
Suc`cin*am"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Suc`cin*am"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an
acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline
substance, and forming a series of salts.
Suc"ci*nate (?), n. [L. succinum, sucinum, amber, from succus, sucus,
juice, sap: cf. F. succinate.] (Chem.) A salt of succinic acid.
Suc*cinct" (?), a. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or
from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture.] 1. Girded
or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
His habit fit for speed succinct.
Milton.