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n. Failure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A succedaneum. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. succedaneus. See Succeed. ] Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Succedanea [ NL. See Succedaneous. ] One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; specifically (Med.), a remedy used as a substitute for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Succeeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Succeeding. ] [ L. succedere, successum; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F. succéder. See Cede, and cf. Success. ] 1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

As he saw him nigh succeed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [ Obs. & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Succeed my wish and second my design. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enjoy till I return
Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. [ 1913 Webster ]

No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To go under cover. [ A latinism. Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you to the cooler cave succeed! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To follow; pursue. See Follow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Succeeding one another; following. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A successor. Shak. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL., an accompanier in singing, fr. succinere to sing, to accompany; sub under, after + canere to sing. ] (Eccl.) A subchanter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. successus: cf. F. succès. See Succeed. ] 1. Act of succeeding; succession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned
By due success. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The tempter stood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dream of success and happy victory! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or teach with more success her son
The vices of the time to shun. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Succession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My peculiar honors, not derived
From successary, but purchased with my blood. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was in the succession to an earldom. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. “A long succession must ensue.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. “Successional teeth.” Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a successive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being successive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no success. [ 1913 Webster ]

Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not able or likely to succeed. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of success; failure; misfortune. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]