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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

tles, and the only apostle who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession. Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

h after me is preferred before me. John i. 15. The eldest son is before the younger in succession. Johnson.

ce of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

Backward in time or order of succession; past. Forgetting those things which are behind. Phil. ii. 13.