Definition of succession

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Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

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Tailzie :: Tailzie (n.) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted..
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years..
Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..
Twill :: Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving..
Clack :: Clack (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object..
Aubaine :: Aubaine (n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
Ordinal :: Ordinal (n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.
Variety :: Variety (n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Successive :: Successionist (n.) 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..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level..
Aludel :: Aludel (n.) One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, 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..
Era :: Era (n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian)..
Succession :: Succession (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..
Demise :: Demise (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles
Melody :: Melody (n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
Revolver :: Revolver (n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater..
Succession :: Succession (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..
Papacy :: Papacy (n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes..
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