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succedent, a. and n. Now Obs. or rare.|səkˈsiːdənt|
Also 6–9 succedant, 9 succeedant, -ent.
[ad. L. succēdens, -ent-, pr. pple. of succēdĕre to succeed.]
A. adj.
1. Following, succeeding, subsequent. Const. to.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 35 First lef and then flowres and grapes succedent. 1577Harrison England i. vii. 7 b in Holinshed, That after death it [sc. the soul] went in to another bodye, the seconde or succedent, being alwayes, eyther more noble, or more vile than the former. 1587― Ibid. ii. v. 157 in Holinshed, Few of them doo agree vpon forme of discipline and gouernement of the church succedent. 1607T. Walkington Optic Glass 63 Which causeth a great heate to bee ingendered ther by the coughing motion, which heat draws a succedent phleum. 1614W. Bedwell Nat. Geom. Numbers iv. 63 The quotient 2 I place in the quotient for the side of the succedent cube. 1677Cary Palæol. Chron. ii. i. §1. xx. 144 The making of those XIV Dynasties succedent one to another, which for severals of them were coeval. 1797Monthly Mag. XXXVI. 214 There must have been a precedent, and there also must be a succedent state. 1887A. M. Brown Anim. Alkaloids 158 Each having an existence of its own, but presenting in its terms antecedent and succedant, analogies which [etc.].
b. Her.
1688Holme Armoury ii. 485/2 Succedant, succeeding, following one another. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I.
2. Astrol. succedent houses: the 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th houses (see quots.).
1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 64 The 2. 5. 8. and 11. be called the houses Succedants. 1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) iii. 690 Those fowre [houses of heaven] which begin at the foure foresaid angles, are named Angularie houses: the next fowre following are called Succedent, and the rest Cadent. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Phys. 164 For common signs, and succedant houses we usually allow somewhat above half so much as we do for first signs. 1679Moxon Math. Dict., Succedent-Houses, Are so called, because they succeed or follow Angles in a Celestial Figure; as the 11th. the 2d. the 5th. and the 8th. which succeeding, is yet not so much in Order, as in Condition and Dignity. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 165 In a succeedent house, moveable signs give months.
B. n.
†1. A thing that follows another. Obs.
c1440Pallad. Husb. iii. 1124 This Greek auctorite So macth to craft nature a succedent. 1608J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 17 A succedent I graunt, nearest vnto it of al others.
2. Astrol. A ‘succedent house’ (see A 2).
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §4 The lord of the assendent..is fortunat, whan he is..in a succedent, where-as he is in his dignite & conforted with frendly aspectys of planetes. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 176 There be foure called angles, and foure succedants, and foure cadants. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 32 In the succedent was Aquarius.
†3. A result, issue. Obs. rare.
1627E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 143 Such is the mutability of the inconstant Vulgar..; despising the time being, extolling that of their Forefathers, and ready to act any mischief to try by alteration the succedent. |