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successionn.

Brit. /səkˈsɛʃn/, U.S. /səkˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
Forms: Also Middle English successioun(e, successyon, etc.
Etymology: < Old French succession (from 13th cent.) or its source Latin successio , -ōnem , noun of action < succēdĕre to succeed v. Compare Provençal successio, Italian successione, Spanish sucesion, Portuguese successão.
I. The action of succeeding, and related uses.
1.
a. The action of a person or thing following, or succeeding to the place of, another; the coming of one person or thing after another; also, the passing from one act or state to another; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun]
successionc1405
progression1483
discourse1541
consequency1548
array1576
consequence1597
sequence1597
concatenation1614
catenation1641
pursuance1645
consecution1651
successivenessa1676
sequentialism1848
successivity1866
sequentiality1883
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun]
ordera1382
successionc1405
suing?a1425
succeedingc1460
success1546
consequency1548
ensuing1561
consequence1597
sequence1597
pursuit1605
subsequence1610
descent1613
successorship1627
consecution1651
seriation1658
successivenessa1676
successivity1866
diadoche1884
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2150 He hath so wel biset his ordinaunce That specis of thynges and progressions Shullen enduren by successions.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. i. sig. A.iijv/2 Least peraduenture their children shoulde be ignoraunt of the beginning and succession of worldlye things.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff4v The future succession of all ages. View more context for this quotation
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 148 Such a succession is to be found in euery substantiall conuersion, whereby one substance is destroyed, and other succeedeth in the roome of it.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiv. 85 By reflecting on the appearing of various Ideas, one after another in our Understandings, we get the Notion of Succession.
1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 5 Thy Being no Succession knows, And all thy vast Designs are One.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 62 We..live, perforce, from thought to thought, and make One act a phantom of succession.
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. §70. 381 The reproduction of the component denticles in horizontal succession.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 330 The series of measures which in their rapid succession changed the whole character of the English Church.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 416 The ideas of men have a succession in time as well as an order of thought.
†b. The act of passing by continuous movement into a place. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > continuous or copious
inrolling?1548
influxion1605
trolling1614
influx1652
succession1692
inpouring1721
inflow1848
inflooding1855
instreaming1876
inpour1885
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 69 The Air accompanies and follows it by a constant Succession.
1729 T. Dale tr. J. Freind Emmenologia (1752) xii. 154 Nutrition being nothing else than the apposition of any Juice, or a perpetual succession of aliment into the Pores of the Fibres.
†c. The act of following another in a course of conduct. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > following in a course of conduct
ensuing1561
successiona1616
mimesis1962
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. v. 23 The miserie is example, that so terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot for all that disswade succession . View more context for this quotation
2. Phrases.
a. in succession, one after another in regular sequence, successively.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase]
a-row?c1225
by rowc1230
on (also upon) a rowc1300
by and by1330
in a rowc1330
on rowc1330
in routc1390
in successionc1449
by succession(s)?a1475
in sequencea1575
in (also by) progression1660
member by member1726
in file1744
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 306 Forto abide in thilk sufficience thoruȝ manye ȝeeris in successioun.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Dyalling 46 Mark them in succession from the beginning with 10, 20, 30, to 90.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiv. 86 'Tis as clear as any Demonstration can be, that it must..touch one part of the Flesh first, and another after; and so in Succession.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 149 In the period I have taken, we have had three unfavourable seasons, and two in succession, worse than any other in the memory of any man living.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xix. 494 On one end of the tube the parts will be bent and curved in succession as they become heated.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (1879) iii. §12. 69 The rotation of the Earth bringing each part in succession from sunshine to shade.
1914 Infantry Training 73 When a column is on the march, platoons may, if desired, advance in fours in succession.
†b. by succession(s): successively. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase]
a-row?c1225
by rowc1230
on (also upon) a rowc1300
by and by1330
in a rowc1330
on rowc1330
in routc1390
in successionc1449
by succession(s)?a1475
in sequencea1575
in (also by) progression1660
member by member1726
in file1744
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 271 After that other realmes were made in Grece by succession.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 39 Because the Matter, wounded deepe in hart With various Loue..by successions, Forme after Forme receaues.
†c. in a succession: continuously. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > continuously or uninterruptedly [phrase] > in continuous succession
forne onc1175
(one) in (also on) the neck of another1525
in a successiona1715
hand-running?1807
off the reel1866
on the trot1952
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 173 If the money..had been raised all in a succession, as fast as the work could be carried on.
†3. The course, lapse, or process of time. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
process1357
concoursec1400
coursec1460
successionc1485
passing-by1523
by-passing1526
slacka1533
continuancea1552
race1565
prolapse1585
current1587
decurse1593
passage1596
drifting1610
flux1612
effluxion1621
transcursion1622
decursion1629
devolution1629
progression1646
efflux1647
preterition1647
processus1648
decurrence1659
progress1664
fluxation1710
elapsing1720
currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 215 A thing yat is nocht of valew be the law as ground of rycht jn the begynnyng, the successioun of tyme may neuer mak jt rycht.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 328 This was the true Originall, by which in succession of time the Empire was translated.
1655 M. Carter Anal. Honor in Honor Rediv. 2 Succession of time hath converted it into another custom.
4. The transmission (or mode of transmission) of an estate, royal or official dignity, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > [noun] > succession > mode of
successiona1325
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by
successiona1325
devolution1545
devolvinga1674
a1325 Statutes of Realm in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 59 Þoru maner of ȝifte þe womman passez bifore þe man. in succession.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 147 The moder blood schulde be putt to fore in successioun of heritage.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 403 Philippus the kynge of Macedony, sollicitate and besy for the succession of þat realme [L. de regni successore].
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 57 Thai said successioun of kyngrik Was nocht to lawer feys lik, For thar mycht succed na female.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 130 As touchyng the successyon & intaylyng of landys ther must nedys be provysyon.
1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. ix. 223 So long as the Earl of Warwick lived, he was not certaine of the Kingdoms succession.
1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 3 To settle the Succession of the State.
1690 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 26 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 To provyde and secure the successione of the lands.
1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) I. 100 The equal partition of the succession which prevailed in the Roman law, has place also in the law of Scotland in the succession of moveables.
5.
a. The process by which one person succeeds another in the occupation or possession of an estate, a throne, or the like; the act or fact of succeeding according to custom or law to the rights and liabilities of a predecessor; the conditions or principles in accordance with which this is done. the succession: the conditions under which successors to a particular estate, throne, etc. are appointed. war of succession: a war to settle a dispute as to the succession to a particular throne.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > [noun] > succession
successiona1513
adeption1548
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun]
successiona1513
success1587
successary?a1625
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > war of succession
succession wara1823
war of succession1832
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxvi. f. cxlviiv That he shulde haue .MMM. markes yerelye, as before was promysed vnto hym..with other condycions of Successyon.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 An Acte for the establishement of the Kynges succession.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. i. 172 He sware consent to your succession.
a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) iii. 41 Why wrongfull? to suppose the doubtlesse right To the succession worth the thinking on.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 93 King Richard being dead, the right of Succession remained in Arthur, Sonne of Geoffrey Plantagenet.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1681 (1955) IV. 245 Lord Sunderland..was falln in displeasure with the King, for his siding with the Commons &c: about the Succession.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 Th' immortal Line in sure Succession reigns. View more context for this quotation
1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair iv. i. 28 What, Sir? the Succession!—Not mind the Succession!
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. ii. ii. 385 The succession to the Crown of Scotland.
1714 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs (1741) 20 The Security of the Protestant Succession in the House of Hanover.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii The power of the laws in regulating the succession to property.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 34 The course of succession is the healthy habit of the British constitution. View more context for this quotation
1832 Ld. Mahon (title) History of the War of the Succession in Spain.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 44 The dangers of a disputed succession being now terminated.
1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 51 (title) An Act for granting to Her Majesty Duties on Succession to Property.
1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xvi. 169 She stood in order of succession to the duchy.
b. Phrases.
(a) by succession: according to the customary or legal principle by which one succeeds another in an inheritance, an office, etc. by inherited right.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [phrase] > by succession
by succession1412
in succession1472
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > by succession [phrase]
by succession1412
in succession1472
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 2889 Sche þat..schulde haue ben by successioun Eyre by dissent of þat regioun.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 17 The degré be just successioune,..Unto the kyng is now descended doune, From ether parte righte as eny lyne.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. ii. 27 For better is to haue a kynge by succession than by eleccion.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 200 How art thou a King But by faire sequence and succession ? View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets ii. sig. B Proouing his beautie by succession thine. View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Dryden Def. Ess. Dramatic Poesie 4 in Indian Emperour (ed. 2) I am only a Champion by succession.
1865 F. M. Nichols in tr. Britton I. 219 (margin) Title by succession.
(b) (To have, hold, take) in succession.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [phrase] > by succession
by succession1412
in succession1472
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > by succession [phrase]
by succession1412
in succession1472
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 4/2 Londes..which eny persone temporell..hath..in fee symple, eny maner fee tayle, or in succession.
1835 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Successor Such a corporation cannot regularly take in succession goods and chattels.
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 95 The borough..was an aggregate body acting as an individual,..having a common seal, holding property in succession.
c. pregnantly for: The line or order of succession.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > line or order of succession
succession1533
line of succession1564
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > sequence or order of succession
entailc1380
sequence1592
series1594
sequel1615
succession1708
1533-4 [see sense 5a].
1708 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man ii, in Misc. (1711) 135 This Hereditary Right should be kept so Sacred, as never to break the Succession.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 460 He was in the succession to an earldom.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §2. 353 Mary..had been placed next in the succession to Edward by her father's will.
6. (A person's) right or privilege of succeeding to an estate or dignity.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun]
reversiona1325
succession1461
remainder1580
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > [noun] > succession > right of
succession1461
1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 490/2 Any persone or persones corporat, or havyng succession perpetuell.
1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 172/2 Any persone or persones havyng succession.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxi. 7) He dyed full of dayes..having delivered the succession of his kingdome to his Sonne.
1583 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. III. 568 To denude him of his heretage and rychteous successioun dew to him as eldest sone.
1651 tr. F. de Quintana Hist. Don Fenise 314 He without regarding the ordinance of his mother would possesse himselfe of the succession.
1680 J. Dryden tr. Ovid in J. Dryden et al. tr. Epist. 216 What People is so void of common sence, To Vote Succession from a Native Prince.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 63 He could achieve such a purpose without endangering both his succession and his life.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 16 Each tract was the property..of some body of persons who, in modern legal phrase, had perpetual succession.
1894 Sir W. Harcourt in Daily News 17 Apr. 2/7 The right to make wills or settlements or successions is the creation of positive law.
7. The act of succeeding to the episcopate by the reception of lawfully transmitted authority by ordination. apostolic(al) succession (or the succession), the continued transmission of the ministerial commission, through an unbroken line of bishops from the Apostles onwards.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > entry into office of
succession1565
1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. f. 57v To go from your succession, which ye can not proue, and to come to your vocation, how saye you Syr?
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. 129 Haue these menne their owne succession in so safe Record? Who was then the Bishop of Rome nexte by succession vnto Peter?
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxxiii. 55 Obtayning the first stepp of Apostolicall succession, and being as deuine Disciples of the..principall men.
1653 O. Cromwell Speech 4 July (Carlyle) I speak not..for a Ministry deriving itself from the Papacy, and pretending to that which is so much insisted on, ‘Succession’.
1845 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. viii. 314 Instead of taking as your prominent subject the ‘Succession’..you would take the more spiritual view of the Ministry.
1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church ix. 99 We have an account of their [sc. the bishops'] successions for some ages.
1879 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. ii. 35 Foreign or other Protestants, who either disclaim or do not possess the Succession.
1879 A. W. Haddan Apostolical Succession Church Eng. ii. 30 The historical and canonical objections advanced..against the validity of the English Succession.
II. A person who succeeds or follows, and related uses.
†8. Successors, heirs, or descendants collectively; progeny, issue. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively
bairn-teamc885
kinc950
seedOE
teamOE
offspringOE
kindOE
childrenc1175
lineage1303
generationa1325
issuea1325
successiona1340
kindredc1350
progenya1382
posterityc1410
sequelc1440
ligneea1450
posterior1509
genealogy1513
propagation1536
racea1547
postery1548
after-spring1583
bowela1593
afterworld1594
loin1608
descendance1617
succession1618
proles1640
descent1667
ramage1936
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Cant. 496 My generacioun, þat is, succession of childire.
c1400 Rom. Rose 4857 Bycause alle is corrumpable And faile shulde successioun.
1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 351/2 Eny other succession of youre body lawefully commyng.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 441 The sonnes of Hector recurede and toke þe cite of Troye, expellenge the succession of Antenor.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 To..provyde for the perfite suertie of both you and of your moste lawfull succession and heires.
1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 264v When they [beasts] shulde bringe furth theyr broode or succession.
1605 in Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1896) II. 121 Prayeris..for..the Kingis Majestie, his hienes Quein, and thair successioune.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 8 Cassibulan..for him, And his Succession, granted Rome a Tribute. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 Their young Succession all their Cares employ: They breed, they brood, instruct and educate. View more context for this quotation
†9.
a. A generation (of men); chiefly plural (future or successive) generations. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 85 The chieldren of Seth in story ye may se, Flowryng in vertu by longe successiouns.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 26 b So exceeding are mine aduersities, that after successions which shall heare of them; will euen be desolate..with the hearing.
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. H1v Found out with euery finger, made the shame Of all successions.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxix. 13 Paraphr.) 396 Our posterity to all successions joyning with us.
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 120 Ancestors, who have been held for some Successions rich.
1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) ix. 96 The Sloth, Luxury, and abandoned Lusts, which enervated their Breed through every Succession.
†b. Posterity. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively
bairn-teamc885
kinc950
seedOE
teamOE
offspringOE
kindOE
childrenc1175
lineage1303
generationa1325
issuea1325
successiona1340
kindredc1350
progenya1382
posterityc1410
sequelc1440
ligneea1450
posterior1509
genealogy1513
propagation1536
racea1547
postery1548
after-spring1583
bowela1593
afterworld1594
loin1608
descendance1617
succession1618
proles1640
descent1667
ramage1936
1618 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. IV. O.T. xiii. 180 If we sowe good workes, succession shall reape them.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 26 To propagate his doctrine to succession.
1704 J. Inett Origines Anglicanæ I. xi. §14. 183 Succession so far justified this Proceeding, that this Council of Sardice was never receiv'd by the Eastern Churches.
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. ix. 98 He..provided for Succession by constituting Bishops, and other Officers and Pastors.
10.
a. A series of persons or things in orderly sequence; a continued line (of sovereigns, heirs to an estate, etc.); an unbroken line or stretch (of objects coming one after another). Also, †a continued spell (of weather).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession
row?1510
processiona1564
sequencea1575
succession1579
pomp1595
suite1597
rosary1604
sequel1615
series1618
rope1621
success1632
concatenation1652
sorites1664
string1713
chain1791
course1828
serie1840
daisy chain1856
nexus1858
catena1862
litany1961
1579 J. Young in W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue sig. A iij The succession of Popes, and that body and kingdome is the very Antichrist.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. vi. 115 S. Augustine..saith..In all this order of succession of Bishops [of Rome] there is not one Bishop found that was a Donatist.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 231 The Greeke Historiographers (best like to know the Turkish succession).
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. iv. §1 In that same place God doth promise a succession of Prophets.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 331 A long succession must ensue, And his next Son..The clouded Ark of God..shall in a glorious Temple enshrine. View more context for this quotation
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. Pref. p. vi The entire succession of ages is present to him.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 168 An agreeable succession of small points of land.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xvii. 203 Such a succession of rain. View more context for this quotation
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. 34 When we consider the inconceivable minuteness of the particles of light, and that a single ray consists of a succession of those particles.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 189 The House of Austria had, by a succession of victories, been secured from danger on the side of Turkey.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 418 Every progress of Elizabeth from shire to shire was a succession of shows and interludes.
†b. The followers collectively, or a sect of followers, of a school of thought. (Rendering Greek διαδοχή.) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [noun] > followers of
succession1653
school1827
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme Gen. Pref. p. xvii I omitted to set down the succession of the Pythagorick school.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. iv. 1 The Succession of the Ionick Philosophy, which before Socrates was single: after him was divided into many Schooles.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 80 The Successions of the Pythagorean School.
11. A set of persons or things succeeding in the place of others.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > successor > set of persons or things succeeding
succession1702
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 60 That That, which look'd like Pride in some, and like Petulance in others, would..be in time wrought off, or, in a new Succession, reform'd.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xliii. 21 While the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear.
1865 W. B. Carpenter in Youmans Corr. & Conserv. Forces 418 (Cent. Dict.) The leaves of ‘evergreens’..are not cast off until the appearance of a new succession.
†12. That to which a person succeeds as heir; an inheritance. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited
etheleOE
heritagea1225
ereward-richea1325
reversiona1325
patrimony1357
succession1382
inheriteson1470
heredity?c1550
inheritage1557
long acre1608
relict1726
post-obit1812
hand-me-down1909
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xviii. 8 Out take that, that in his cytee of the fadre successyoun is owed to hym.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvii. 479 Now let vs see what we our selues haue brought to this decayed succession.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Succession,..an Inheritance or Estate come to one by Succession.
1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 80 I can, indeed, leave him a good Succession.
III. Something that succeeds; the result.
†13. The result, issue. Obsolete. (Cf. late Latin successio.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
issuea1325
outcominga1382
conclusionc1384
endc1385
fruita1400
finec1405
termination?a1425
sumc1430
succession1514
sequel1524
game1530
success1537
event1539
pass1542
increase1560
outgate1568
exit1570
cropc1575
utmosta1586
upshoot1598
sequence1600
upshot1604
resultance1616
upshut1620
succedenta1633
apotelesm1636
come-off1640
conclude1643
prosult1647
offcome1666
resultant1692
outlet1710
period1713
outcome1788
outrun1801
outcome1808
upset1821
overcome1822
upping1828
summary1831
outgo1870
upcomec1874
out-turn1881
end-product1923
pay-off1926
wash-up1961
1514 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 228 Any prousperous succession of your Graces causes.
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Cvii Accordyng to the aduyse of his frind the one of them wrught where ye succession was not good.
1557 R. Pole in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) III. ii. 494 As the successyon shewede he dyd.
IV. Technical uses.
14.
a. Astronomy. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > sign of zodiac > order of reckoning
succession1679
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 151 Succession of the Signs, Is that order in which they are usually reckoned; as first Aries, next Taurus, then Gemini, &c.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) When a Planet is direct, it is said to go according to the Order and Succession of the Signs,..when Retrograde, it is said to go contrary to the Succession of the Signs.
b. Music. ‘The order in which the notes of a melody proceed.’ Also = sequence n. 3b.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > melodic progression
progression1609
movement1683
succession1737
1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xxvii. 92 A Sequence, or Succession of Harmony, is nothing else but a Link or Chain of Keys and Governing-notes.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) Of succession there are two kinds, conjunct and disjunct. Conjunct Succession is when the sounds proceed regularly, upward or downward, through the several intervening degrees. Disjunct Succession is when they immediately pass from one degree to another without touching the intermediate degrees.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 411/2 A sequence is sometimes spoken of as a succession, and passages of similar chords or progressions are described as a succession of thirds [etc.].
c. Military. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > [noun] > grading by dates of commission
succession1745
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > other lists
roster1727
sick-list1748
size-roll1757
army list1763
retired list1797
succession1805
blacklist1825
active list1827
1745 J. Millan (title) The Succession of Colonels to All His Majesties Land Forces, from their Rise, to 1744.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Succession of Rank, relative gradation according to the dates of commissions.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. A Commission in succession, a commission in which an individual has an inherent property from having purchased it, or raised men.
1805 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) Succession of colonels , a particular part of the official army list is so called. The dates of the several appointments are therein specified, together with the numbers and facings of the different regiments.
d. Agriculture and Horticulture. (a) The rotation (of crops); (b) the maturing of crops of the same kind by a system of successive sowings so that as one is declining another is coming on.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > rotation of crops
rotation1757
course1767
succession1779
turnip-system1805
convertible husbandry1811
four-field course1842
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > succession of crops
succession1842
double cropping1873
multicropping1965
1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 168 The Succession of Crops (or rather of the Occupants of the Soil, whether Crops, or Fallow) may be regular or irregular.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. II. 144 The succession is similar to that of West Devonshire: ley ground, partially fallowed for wheat, with one or two crops of oats; grass seeds being sown with the last crop.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 505 In order to have a succession of fruit, it is requisite to sow the seed at three different times.
1900 Daily News 5 May 4/3 Almost every kind of vegetable may now be sown for succession.
e. Geology, etc. The continued sequence in a definite order of species, types, etc.; spec. the descent in uninterrupted series of forms modified by evolution or development.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > evolutionary or developmental sequence
succession1836
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. vi. 54 To refer the origin of existing organizations..to an eternal succession of the same species.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ix. 210 The law of the succession of types.
1842 A. Sedgwick in Hudson's Guide Lakes (1843) 188 Phenomena which not only indicate succession, but were elaborated during vast intervals of time.
f. Psychology. That form of association in which the relationship is a sequence in time.
ΚΠ
1837–8 W. Hamilton Logic (1860) II. 122 The Law of Continuity or Immediate Succession.
1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 112 Coexistence..is an artificial growth, formed from a certain peculiar class of mental successions.
1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. s.v. Duration and succession are correlated aspects of Change in that in which individual Identity is pre-supposed.
g. Ecology. The sequence of ecological changes in which one group of plant or animal species is replaced by another.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > balance of nature > [noun] > replacement of one species by another
succession1860
1860 H. D. Thoreau in N.Y. Weekly Tribune 6 Oct. 6/6 (heading) The succession of forest trees.
1899 Bot. Gaz. 27 95 The ecologist..must study the order of succession of the plant societies in the development of a region.
1904 Univ. Nebraska Stud. IV. 332 Such succession herbaria are the natural outgrowth of formational ones.
1926 A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study Vegetation ii. 7 Vegetation, when left to itself, tends to change in a definite direction..and this change we call succession.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xv. 834 It is not impossible that the element plays some part in regulating phytoplankton succession.
1975 Sci. Amer. May 90/1 Forest succession proceeds too slowly for it to be observed directly.
h. Geology. A group of strata whose order represents a single chronological sequence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun]
series1799
system1823
terrain1823
stage1859
group1865
section1882
horizon1926
cyclothem1932
succession1940
range zone1957
1940 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 24 309 Near Las Vegas an apparently conformable succession of marine beds, mostly limestone, is designated as the Bird Spring formation.
1976 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 132 121 The study area covers..the eastern half of the flysch succession.
1979 D. Attenborough Life on Earth ii. 36 The limestones at the top of the Moroccan succession are about 560 million years old.

Compounds

succession bath n. a bath in which hot and cold water are used in succession ( Cent. Dict.).
succession-crop n. a crop of some plant coming in succession to another.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > succession-crop
succession flowers1841
succession-crop1864
1864 M. Gatty Parables 4th Ser. 21 A narrow slip..for succession-crops of mustard and cress.
succession duty n. a duty assessed upon succession to estate.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > estate or inheritance taxes
finec1436
legacy duty1786
probate duty1804
inheritance tax (or taxation)1841
death tax1850
death duty1852
succession duty1853
succession tax1859
testate duty1880
estate duty1889
capital transfer tax1928
1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 51 §45 The Commissioners..may assess the Succession Duty on the Footing of such Account and Estimate.
1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 51 §55 This Act may be cited for all Purposes as ‘The Succession Duty Act, 1853’.
1894 Act 57 & 58 Vict. c. 30 §18 (2) The principal value of real property for the purpose of succession duty shall be ascertained in the same manner.
succession flowers n. a crop of flowers following an earlier crop.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > succession-crop
succession flowers1841
succession-crop1864
1841 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 2 25 Some amends is, however, made for this, in the readiness with which the succession-flowers come on.
succession house n. one of a series of forcing-houses having regularly graded temperatures into which plants are moved in succession; so succession-pine.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > other types of glass-house or hothouse
orangeryc1660
winter garden1736
pinery1756
succession house1786
mushroom house1797
striking-house1824
palm house1826
show house1831
cold house1841
pine-house1843
orchard house1858
coolhouse1869
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 59 Young succession pines—or last years crowns and suckers retained in nursery bark pits or beds.
1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 93 An immense range of forcing and succession houses.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. vii. 133 How were Mr. Allen's succession-houses worked? View more context for this quotation
1857 A. Marsh Rose of Ashurst I. iii. 77 He went on, opening succession house after succession house. We ended by the garden door at which we had entered.
succession powder n. [French poudre de succession] a poison supposed to have been made of lead acetate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > mineral poison > others
Stygian liquor1638
succession powdera1821
a1821 Mrs. Piozzi in A. Hayward Autobiogr., Lett. & Lit. Remains Mrs. Piozzi (1861) I. 356 In Italy it was supposed to have been the succession powder mingled with chocolate whilst in the cake, not in the liquid we drink. Acqua Toffana, and succession powder (polvere per successione) were administered, as I have heard, with certain although ill-understood effects.
1824 Ld. J. Russell Mem. Aff. Europe I. 192 The Countess of Soissons..Being accused of having bought some of the poison, called by the dealers succession powder.
1846 A. Amos Great Oyer Poisoning 347 In more modern times the like powers have been attributed to the Aqua Tophana, and the Succession Powder.
succession state n. a state which comes into existence after the overthrow or division of a previous state (used originally of those states which succeeded the dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1919).
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > existing after overthrow or division
succession state1924
successor state1930
1924 These Eventful Years (Encycl. Brit.) II. 126 The nationalist problem is renewing itself in the succession states, which are nationalistically as varied as was Old Austria.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Feb. 67/1 So in its extreme forms is the doctrine of self-determination [a menace to civilization]—witness the plight of the Austro-Hungarian Succession States.
1943 C. Hollingworth German just behind Me ii. 14 Like Romania it [sc. Yugoslavia] is a ‘Succession State’.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Mar. 318/2 Now that the breakaway of Bangladesh has effected a second partition of the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent, there has been renewed interest in all three succession states in the long-standing controversy over whether the first partition was either inevitable or necessary.
succession tax n. a tax similar to succession duty.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > estate or inheritance taxes
finec1436
legacy duty1786
probate duty1804
inheritance tax (or taxation)1841
death tax1850
death duty1852
succession duty1853
succession tax1859
testate duty1880
estate duty1889
capital transfer tax1928
1859 J. Bright Speeches 3 A law to impose a succession tax.
succession war n. = ‘war of succession’ (see sense 5).
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > war of succession
succession wara1823
war of succession1832
a1823 J. Penney Linlithgowshire (1832) 151 This barony was probably forfeited during the succession war.
1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 177/2 Succession wars were of frequent occurrence in Europe, between the middle of the 17th and the middle of the 18th centuries, on the occasion of the failure of a sovereign house.

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line of succession: a sequence of individuals, typically determined by birth order or hierarchical position, that establishes who is to succeed the holder of a royal or noble title, or an estate, office, or position, in the event of that person's death, resignation, etc.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > line or order of succession
succession1533
line of succession1564
1564 E. Grindal Serm. Funeral Prince Ferdinandus sig. C.ii Other Princes liuing heretofore incontinently, haue bene plaged..with sterilitie & want of roial issue of their bodies, and so the direct line of succession hath bene cut of after them.
1736 Information for A. Colquhoun 2 A separate Line of Succession of the Estate of Luss was devised, so that both Families might not be confounded in one Person.
1859 F. B. Goodrich Women of Beauty & Heroism 284 The king's brother, Monsieur de Provence, who was next in the line of succession, probably felt..some little chagrin at this tardy continuation of the direct male line.
1922 H. Ford & S. Crowther My Life & Work vi. 92 The Ford factories and enterprises have no organization, no specific duties attaching to any position, no line of succession or of authority.
1998 W. D. Nelson Who speaks for President? xiii. 222 Originally, the secretary of state was next in line of succession to the presidency after the vice president , but Congress had changed this in the mid-1960s to put the speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate ahead of him.
2009 Independent 14 Sept. 33/3 Lord Frederick Windsor [is]..32nd in line to the throne... When George I came to the throne, he was 52nd in the line of succession. Stranger things have happened.
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