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单词 successively
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successivelyadv.

/səkˈsɛsɪvli/
Forms: Also Middle English sussessiffly, successevely, Middle English–1500s successyvely.
Etymology: -ly suffix2.
1. By successive stages (of increase or decrease); †by degrees. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adverb] > in stages
successivelya1425
by sequels1477
by degrees?1566
progressively1620
degreeingly1628
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > by stages or steps
successively1715
incrementally1828
stepwise1955
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 58 When þe pacientes felen þamself more heuy..þan is þe flwyng ouer mych; wherfor it is alsone successyuely to be restreyned and turned away.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cvv A pestilent humor, which successiuely alitle and litle corrupteth all the membres.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 262 To doe that at once, which must bee done successiuely, is an argument of a rash, and intemperate man.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 23 The Air goes into the Hollows, is warm'd, and then successively warms the whole Air of the Room.
1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions Pref. p. vii What a continual and successively variable Velocity can produce.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 532 Now and then the stoppers of bottles become fixed.., in which case means of loosening them, successively increasing in power..must be resorted to.
1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. iii. §1. 152 The higher terms of the series becoming successively more viscid and oily.
2. In succession.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb]
aboutOE
by rewc1225
by ordera1382
sue?a1425
in orderc1425
successively1439
suingly1453
seriatly?a1475
consequently1477
seriatim1495
in sequencea1575
successive1593
succeedingly1602
consequentially1607
subalternately1632
successfully1651
epassyterotically1652
consequent1692
serially1841
consecutively1847
solid1938
1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 114 The wardeyns of Seynt Austyns chirch..sussessiffly beyng.
1462 Rolls of Parl. V. 489/1 Henry the Vth..and Henry the VIth..successevely Kynges of Englond.
1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 522/2 They..and their successours, and the successours of every of them, shall have successyvelye for ever, lyke auctorite.
1521 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 258 [He] opennyd the boke..and begynning the prohem, redde therof successyvely v. lefes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y2 Fiue sonnes he left begotten of one wife, All which successiuely by turnes did rayne.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 170 It was subject to the Emperour Otho the first, by right of his wife, and successively to the Emperours.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxviii. 245 Everlasting Fire,..(into which men may be cast successively one after another for ever).
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1671 (1955) III. 570 The famous Play, cald the Siege of Granada two days acted successively.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 400. ⁋9 The Disappointment of four or five Passions which she has successively had for different Men.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 356 Diocletian was successively promoted to the government of Mæsia, the honours of the consulship, and the important command of the guards of the palace.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 298 The lad..fetched an earthen jar and a horn cup,..and offered them successively to the lady and to the boy.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds x. 163 If we suppose ourselves placed successively on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the Sun will appear smaller and smaller.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1. 593 He became successively Solicitor and Attorney-General.
3. Continuously or without interruption (for a certain period). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adverb]
togetherc1290
bedenea1300
continuallyc1305
an-end?1440
contunely1447
successively1531
jointlyc1540
continuedly1559
unend1559
durably?1567
outright1579
continuately1601
uninterruptedly1665
constantly1682
unintermittedly1693
unbrokenly1850
unintermittently1875
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. ii. sig. Bi And so successiuely one kynge gouerned all the people of Israell, unto the time of Roboaz.
1548 Hall's Vnion (title page) Beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so successiuely proceadyng to the reigne of..kyng Henry the eight.
1627 W. Bedell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 136 It begins much about the Conquest..and continues successively to Calixtus the 3rd.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Pref. 5 And there [i.e. at Oxford] the excercise of Printing hath continued successively to this day.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 107. ⁋14 Repeat this every Day for a Month successively.
1748 G. Washington Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Writ. (1889) I. 5 Raind successively all last night.
c1790 Encycl. Brit. (1797) VI. 739/2 For 18 years successively.
4. In the course of events, subsequently, eventually. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adverb] > whensoever or eventually
yetc1400
as and when1565
successively1600
in the successa1676
ultimately1818
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. xxiv. 6 What to this howre successiuely is donne Was full of perill.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 27 And all that there-vpon successiuely befell.
1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 277 Which they..were not long adoing, as we shall successively relate.
5. By succession or inheritance. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb] > as a successor or by succession (of persons)
in his steadc1230
successively1597
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adverb]
successively1597
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 135 Not as Protector..But as successiuelie from bloud to bloud. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 330 So thou the garland wearst successiuely . View more context for this quotation
6. Successfully, propitiously. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adverb] > prosperously or successfully
selthelikea1325
luckily1482
felicitously1539
successively1582
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adverb]
wellOE
successively1582
successfully1594
indefectibly1837
1582 A. Munday Discouerie E. Campion sig. F3 Howe all thinges went successiuelie foreward.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 54/2 Beinge verye successivelye cured of Mr. Martel, Chyrurgiane to the Kinge.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 62 Any exploit, how successively or prosperously soever managed.
1683 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ (1709) 33 A battle shall be more successively fought by serving men..than by the most accomplished philosophers.
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