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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.

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

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.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

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.

ds, 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.

postles, 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.

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.

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.

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

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

space 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.

, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.