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Webster 1913 Edition
Successive
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Successive
SUCCESS'IVE
, a.1.
Following in order or uninterrupted course, as a series of persons or things, and either in time or place; as the successive revolutions of years or ages; the successive kings of Egypt. The author holds this strain of declamation through seven successive pages or chapters.Send the successive ills through ages down.
2.
Inherited by succession; as a successive title; a successive empire. [Little used.]