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Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) 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..

Accession :: Accession (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy..

Intercessional :: Intercessional (a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty..

Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign..

Retrocession :: Retrocession (n.) The act of retroceding.

Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

Continually :: Continually (adv.) In regular or repeated succession; very often.

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)..

Tellurian :: Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons..

Continuity :: Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers..

Secessionist :: Secessionist (n.) One who upholds secession.

Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand..

Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord..

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

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