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Definition of Successive
Successive Successive Suc*ces"sive, a. [Cf. F. successif. See Succeed.]
1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming
after without interruption or interval; following one
after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the
successive revolution of years; the successive kings of
Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.
2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an
inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a
successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.
Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5.