| 释义 |
settle the successionDetermine who shall succeed someone: the act settled the succession on the king’s granddaughter...- He settled the succession on his nephew, Princess Fei-ti's son.
- The Italian states were deeply affected by the European wars that were fought to settle the succession of the crowns of Spain, Poland, and Austria.
- When Bishop Rudd delivered a sermon at court in March 1596 which urged the Queen to settle the succession because of the likely imminence of her death, he was briefly confined for his presumption.
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