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successional, a.|səkˈsɛʃənəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to, characterized by, or involving the succession of persons as heirs, rulers, or the like; passing or proceeding by succession or descent; often with special reference to the apostolic succession.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 306 To bring this whole monarchiall Isle from the name, honor and title of successionall regality, to be vnder a Viceroyes gouernment. 1637Heylin Antid. Lincoln. xi. 87 Many things come unto our hands by a successionall tradition. 1652― Cosmogr. ii. 61 [Alsatia] Governed for the Emperours by Provinciall Earls,..accomptable to the Emperours under whom they served; in the end made hereditarie and successionall unto their posterities. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 53 Christ, the Institutor of an authoritative and successional Ministry. 1835Fraser's Mag. XI. 283 He might have had the civility to predict a successional husband. 1845D. King in Ess. Chr. Union v. 245 He..had them regularly consecrated by English bishops, and so qualified to keep up and transmit the successional virtue! a1854W. Jay Autobiogr. (1855) xiv. 127 The system of providing for places by a merely successional supply.
2. a. Of things: Following one upon another; occurring in succession; involved in a succession.
1685H. More Paralip. Prophet xxxix. 340 Both the Cause and the Effect is successional through many Ages. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. Misc. iv. i. 194 The Question is, ‘What constitutes the We or I?’ And, ‘Whether the I of this instant, be the same with that of any instant proceding, or to come.’.. So that the same successional We or I must remain still, on this account, undecided. 1827De Quincey Lessing Wks. 1859 XIII. 289 Successional signs can express none but successional objects, or those of which the parts are in succession. 1872Humphry Myology 8 The peculiar vibratory or successional manner of action of the several parts of a fibre. 1875J. Croll Clim. & Time x. 181 In a successional descent of surface-films from above downwards.
b. In technical use (chiefly Hort.; cf. succession 15).
1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 100 The pine apple plants—now in fruit, must not be shifted, only the young successional pines. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 623 The winter variety [of pea] is sown in September and October, and the summer at different periods, from February to June, for successional cuttings. 1842― Suburban Hort. 435 Successional cropping is that in which the ground is wholly occupied with one crop at one time, to be succeeded by another crop, also wholly of one kind. 1866R. Owen Anat. Vertebrates I. §70. 375 The floor of the alveolus..forms..the roof of a lower vault, in which the germ of a successional tooth..is in course of developement. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 249/2 If sown in spring it [sc. the Intermediate Stock] blooms in autumn, and furnishes a useful successional crop of flowers. 1892Gardener's Chron. 27 Aug. 239/3 The flowers are successional for many months.
c. Ecol. Of or pertaining to ecological succession. Cf. succession 14 f.
1922R. H. Yapp in Jrnl. Ecol. X. 13 The Successional Habitat practically agrees with Clements' developmental concept of habitat. 1967M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens vii. 99 Successional stages leading to forested stands. 1979Sci. Amer. Feb. 73/2 The Swiss have come increasingly to rely on natural tree types and natural successional trends as a basis for their silviculture.
Hence sucˈcessionally adv., by succession.
1846in Worcester (citing Ecl. Rev.). |