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successor|səkˈsɛsə(r)|
Forms: 3–8 successour, 4–6 successoure, (7 -er), 4– successor.
[a. OF. (AF.) successour, -or (mod.F. successeur), = Pr., Pg. successor, It. successore, Sp. sucesor, ad. L. successor, -ōrem, agent-n. f. success-, succēdĕre to succeed.]
a. One who succeeds another in an office, dignity, function, or position. Const. of, to (the predecessor), in, to, † of (the thing succeeded to). (Correlative to predecessor.)
singular successor (Sc. Law): see singular a. 4 b.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10440 Of him & of his successours of rome To holde euere engelond. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 72 To Frankis & Normanz..To Flemmynges & Pikardes..He gaf londes bityme, of whilk þer successoure Hold ȝit þe seysyne. 1382Wyclif Dan. v. 31 Darius of Mede was successour in the rewme. c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 43 He was Successour to Machomete, and of his Generatioun. c1450Mirk's Festial 189 He toke Clement by þe hond..and made hym pope and successor aftyr hym. 1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. I. 37 Air and successour of tailze of umquhile Duncane Lawmond. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxi. 1 David..did carefully comend untoo God his sonne whom he should leave successor of his kingdom. 1611Bible Ecclus. xlvi. 1 The successor of Moses in prophesies. 1671Milton Samson 1021 Thy Paranymph,..Successour in thy bed. 1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. Prol. 17 Where are the Successours to my name? 1766Blackstone Comm. ii. 430 A gift to such a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so long as the corporation subsists. Ibid. 431 The word successors, when applied to a person in his politic capacity, is equivalent to the word heirs in his natural. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India II. 359 Ahdád, the grandson and spiritual successor of Báyazíd. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xii. (1875) 188 Henry VI, the son and successor of Barbarossa.
b. transf. of a thing.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 323 O sodeyn wo that euere art successour To worldly blisse. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. viii. 703 Intervals between the expiration of one Mutiny Act and the enactment of its successor.
c. attrib., as successor-designate; successor state = succession state s.v. succession 15.
1958D. Tait in Middleton & Tait Tribes without Rulers 197 His companion is generally his successor-designate in the office. 1974P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 388, I set up a committee of three, consisting of Colin Crowe, Dennis Greenhill, my successor-designate, representing the Foreign Office and Jack Johnston representing the Commonwealth Office, to meet daily.
1930Economist 9 Aug. 274/1 A century ago the present ‘successor States’ of the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires might have been economically self-sufficient. 1971H. Macmillan Riding Storm xvi. 537 The complicated intrigues and rivalries among the successor states of the old Turkish Empire.
Hence sucˈcessorship [-ship], the condition or position of successor, succession.
1627H. Burton Baiting Pope's Bull 84 What is this to the purpose, to proue the Popes Vicarship or his Successorsship? 1720Gordon & Trenchard Independ. Whig (1728) 436 Nor is there a Word in Scripture, whereby we can guess that they were intended to be Successors to the Apostles, much less that the Successorship was to continue to the End of the World. 1886Rogers Soc. Life Scotl. III. xx. 265 A class of persons might have existed..without any successorship. 1895Cath. News 27 July 6 Three Irish Priests have been selected..in connection with the successorship to the late Most Rev. Dr. Moran, in the Bishopric of Dunedin N.Z. |