Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUC-CESS', n. [Fr. succès; L. successus, from succedo.]

1. The favorable or prosperous termination of any thing attempted; a termination which answers the purpose intended; properly in a good sense, but often in a bad sense. Or teach with more success her son, / The vices of the time to shun. – Waller. Every reasonable man can not but wish me success in this attempt. – Tillotson. Be not discouraged in a laudable undertaking at the ill success of the first attempt. – Anon. Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of people. – Atterbury.
2. Succession. [Not in use.] – Spenser. Note. Success without an epithet, generally means a prosperous issue.

SUC-CESS'FUL, a.

1. Terminating in accomplishing what it wished or intended; having the desired effect; hence, in a good sense, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful application of medicine; a successful experiment in chimistry or in agriculture; a successful enterprise.
2. In a bad sense; as, a successful attempt to subvert the constitution.

SUC-CESS'FUL-LY, adv.

With a favorable termination of what is attempted; prosperously; favorably. A reformation successfully carried on – Swift.

SUC-CESS'FUL-NESS, n.

Prosperous conclusion; favorable event; success. – Hammond.

SUC-CES'SION, n. [Fr. from L. successio.]

1. A following of things in order; consecution; series of things following one another, either in time or place. Thus we speak of a succession of events in chronology, a succession of kings or bishops, and a succession of words or sentences.
2. The act of succeeding or coming in the place of another; as, this happened after the succession of that prince to the throne. So we speak of the succession of heirs to the estates of their ancestors, or collateral succession.
3. Lineage; an order or series of descendants. A long succession must ensue. – Milton.
4. The power or right of corning to the inheritance of ancestors. He holds the property by the title of succession. What people is so void of common sense, / To vote succession from a native prince? – Dryden.
5. In music, the successive notes in melody, in distinction from the successive chords of harmony, called progression. Succession of crops, in agriculture, is more generally called rotation.

SUC-CESS'IVE, a. [Fr. successif; It. successivo.]

1. Following in order or uninterrupted course, as a series of persons or things, and either in time or place; as, the successive revolutions of years or ages; the successive kings of Egypt. The author holds this strain of declamation through seven successive pages or chapters. Send the successive ills through ages down. – Prior.
2. Inherited by succession; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [Little used.] – Shak. Ralegh.

SUC-CESS'IVE-LY, adv.

In a series or order, one following another. He left three sons, who all reigned successively. The whiteness at length changed successively into blue, indigo and violet. – Newton.

SUC-CESS'IVE-NESS, n.

The state of being successive. – Hale.

SUC-CESS'LESS, a.

Having no success; unprosperous; unfortunate; failing to accomplish what was intended. Successless all her soft caresses prove. – Pope. Best temper'd steel successless prov'd in field. – Phillips.

SUC-CESS'LESS-NESS, n.

Unprosperous conclusion. – Boyle.

SUC-CESS'OR, n. [L.]

One that succeeds or follows; one that takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king; the successor of a president or governor; a man's son and successor. A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so long as the corporation subsists. – Blackstone.

SUC-CID'U-OUS, a. [L. succiduus; sub and cado.]

Ready to fall; falling. [Little used.]

SUC-CIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. succus, juice, and fero, to bear.]

Producing or conveying sap.

SUC'CIN-ATE, n. [from L. succinum, amber.]

A salt formed by the succinic acid and a base.

SUC'CIN-A-TED, a.

Combined with the acid of amber.

SUC-CINCT', a. [L. succinctus; sub and cingo, to surround.]

1. Tucked up; girded up; drawn up to permit the legs to be free. His habit fit for speed succinct. [Little used.] – Milton.
2. Compressed into a narrow compass; short; brief; concise; as, a succinct account of the proceedings of the council. Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. – Roscommon.

SUC-CINCT'LY, adv.

Briefly; concisely. The facts were succinctly stated.

SUC-CINCT'NESS, n.

Brevity; conciseness; as, the succinctness of a narration.

SUC-CIN'IC, a.

Pertaining to amber; drawn from amber; as, the succinic acid.

SUC'CIN-ITE, n. [L. succinum, amber.]

A mineral of an amber color, considered as a variety of garnet: It frequently occurs in globular or granular masses, about the size of a pea. – Cleaveland.

SUC'CIN-OUS, a.

Pertaining to amber.

SUC'COR, n.

1. Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress. My father / Flying for succor to his servant Banister. – Shak.
2. The person or thing that brings relief. The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter. The mighty succor which made glad the foe. – Dryden.

SUC'COR, v.t. [Fr. secourir; It. soccorrere; Sp. socorrer; L. succurro; sub and curro, to run.]

Literally, to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; as, to succor a besieged city; to succor prisoners. He is able to succor them that are tempted. – Heb. ii.

SUC'COR-ED, pp.

Assisted; relieved.

SUC'COR-ER, n.

He that affords relief; a helper; a deliverer.