Definition of Successively

1. Adverb. In proper order or sequence. "The stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater"

Exact synonyms: In Turn
Partainyms: Successive

Definition of Successively

1. adv. In a successive manner.

Definition of Successively

1. Adverb. In a serial or successive manner; one following another. ¹

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Definition of Successively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Successively

successary
successe
successes
successful
successfully
successfulness
succession
successional
successionally
successionism
successionist
successionists
successions
successism
successive
successively (current term)
successiveness
successless
successlessness
successor
successoral
successors
successour
succi
succiferous
succinamate
succinamates
succinamic acid
succinamide
succinate

Literary usage of Successively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"... well revoked by the wife surviving; and by the same deed a re-appointment to the daughter and two sons successively for life, with remainders in tail to ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"He studied jurisprudence in Coimbra, was editor of a paper, traveled to the Orient, and became consul successively to Havana, Bristol, and Paris, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As director of the Quebec seminary he was one of the joint founders of Laval University (1852). He successively filled the offices of pastor to the ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He successively filled the offices of pastor to the parishes of Ste Claire ... Before the creation of the see, Rimouski was successively visited by Bishops ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Baptism.1 He was vicar successively of Stock- ton-upon-Tees, Redmarshall and .... successively ..."

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