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  • English Word Succeed Definition 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.
  • English Word Succeed Definition Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
  • English Word Succeed Definition To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  • English Word Succeed Definition 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.
  • English Word Succeed Definition To go under cover.
  • English Word Succeedant Definition Succeeding one another; following.
  • English Word Succeeded Definition of Succeed
  • English Word Succeeder Definition A successor.
  • English Word Succeeding Definition of Succeed
  • English Word Succeeding Definition The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.
  • English Word Succentor Definition A subchanter.
  • English Word Success Definition Act of succeeding; succession.
  • English Word Success Definition That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
  • English Word Success Definition The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
  • English Word Success Definition That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
  • English Word Successary Definition Succession.
  • English Word Successful Definition 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.
  • English Word Succession Definition 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.
  • English Word Succession Definition 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.
  • English Word Succession Definition An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
  • English Word Succession Definition 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.
  • English Word Succession Definition 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.
  • English Word Succession Definition The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
  • English Word Successional Definition Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.
  • English Word Successionist Definition 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.
  • English Word Successive Definition 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.
  • English Word Successive Definition Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
  • English Word Successively Definition In a successive manner.
  • English Word Successiveness Definition The quality or state of being successive.
  • English Word Successless Definition Having no success.