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succeeder|səkˈsiːdə(r)|
Also 5 succidur, 6 -ceder, 7 -cedor.
[f. succeed v. + -er1.]
1. One who (occas. a thing which) succeeds another; a successor. Now rare.
c1440Alph. Tales 60 His succidur þe homycide, at garte sla hym, ioyes of his dignytie at he hase after hym. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 77/1 Alexander,..whose succeeder next was Xistus or Sixtus. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 1 b, They rayled on them calling them..succeders of the Pharisees. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 128 Ayery succeeders of intestine ioyes. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars i. xxiv, But now this great succeeder all repaires, And rebrings-backe that discontinued good. 1615Crooke Body of Man 970 The Dog-teeth also do fall out and the place of the succeeder is a little of the one side the roote of the former. 1620E. Blount Horæ Subs. 286 That if his owne issue failed, hee might leaue a succeeder, such as his owne affection should make choyce of. 1688J. Renwick Dying Test. in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) II. 291, I am the more willing to pay this Cost, for their Instruction, and my Succeeder's ease. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 294 The sole succeeder to their wealth,..The last remaining pillar of their house.
2. One who is successful.
1836L. Hunt in New Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 56 The first undoubted succeeders in raising a man into the air..were the brothers Stephen and Louis de Montgolfier. 1884Browning Ferishtah Epil. 19 Each as on his sole head, failer or succeeder, Lay the blame or lit the praise. |