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unsucˈcessive, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
†1. Unsuccessful. Obs.—1
1617Woodall Surg. Mate Pref. (1639) B 6 b, To keepe a Iournall in writing..as well of the unsuccessive applications, as of the successive.
2. Not exhibiting succession.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 345 Although we be measured by the Zone of time,..yet can we not thus.. summe up the unsuccessive and stable duration of God. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. 90 Such parts of the visible Universe as are incorruptible, unalterable, and unsuccessive. 1737A. Baxter Enq. Nat. Human Soul 375 If this necessary Being hath no change or succession in his nature, his existence must of course be unsuccessive. 1811A. McLean Comm. Heb. Wks. 1847 II. 281 He hath an unsuccessive priesthood, which passeth not from him to any other.
Hence unsucˈcessively adv., † unsuccessfully.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4333/4 The Union with Scotland,..so often..unsuccessively attempted,..is the Joy..of all Your..Subjects. |