Succession
[sək'seʃ(ə)n] or [sək'sɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) acquisition of property by descent or by will.
(noun.) the action of following in order; 'he played the trumps in sequence'.
(noun.) a group of people or things arranged or following in order; 'a succession of stalls offering soft drinks'; 'a succession of failures'.
(noun.) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established.
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Checker: Shelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sequence, consecution.[2]. Series, suite, progression, chain, concatenation.[3]. Lineage, race, line of descendants.[4]. (Mus.) Notes of melody (as distinguished from chords of harmony).
Typist: Marion
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Following, supervention, consecution, sequence, order, series, rotation,continuity, supply, suite
ANT:Precedence, anticipation, prevention, antecedence, irregularity, disorder,non-sequence, solution, failure, intermission, break, gap, inconsecutiveness
Checker: Micawber
Examples
- Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and West Point fell in quick succession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the stamp is of an inferior price to what the testator ought to have made use of, his succession is confiscated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nor can we deal with the war of the Spanish Succession. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It will be of use to me to hear the succession of events again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He became Emperor in succession to his father, Frederick III, in 1493, and married the duchy of Milan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the first place, he shall receive honour in the army from his youthful comrades; every one of them in succession shall crown him. Plato. The Republic.
- All were in succession pressed on her by her uncle, and all in succession she refused. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In succession are the chutes on which the crates of fenders are sent down from the fourth floor of the main factory building to the shipping platform. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another and another followed in quick succession until the jungle reverberated with the now almost ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty screams. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Hence the origin of the right of primogeniture, and of what is called lineal succession. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Of the same kind is the Dutch tax upon successions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Direct successions, or those of descendants to ascendants, pay no tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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