資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession.
   See {Succeed}.]
   1. 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.

   2. A series of persons or things according to some
      established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings,
      or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.

            He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay.

   3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
      ``A long succession must ensue.'' --Milton.

   4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title
      of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon
      the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also,
      the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a
      predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of
      succeeding, to a throne.

            You have the voice of the king himself for your
            succession in Denmark.                --Shak.

            The animosity of these factions did not really arise
            from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay.

   5. 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.

   6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or
      heir. [R.] --Milton.

   {Apostolical succession}. (Theol.) See under {Apostolical}.
      

   {Succession duty}, a tax imposed on every succession to
      property, according to its value and the relation of the
      person who succeeds to the previous owner.