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1. Successful issue, success.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. xxxv. 104. Lest þou be lifte up in succedyng of þi desire [orig. in bono successu].
1671. Milton, P. R., II. 143. Lest confidence Of my success with Eve in Paradise Deceive ye to perswasion over-sure Of like succeeding here.
1730. A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 80. For the better succeeding in the important Undertaking be has in hand.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 137. Their succeeding throws no obstacle against his success.
1847. G. Harris, Life Ld. Hardwicke, II. vii. 129. Failure in such a case, where all the qualifications for succeeding were possessed.
† 2. Succession. Obs.
c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 204. Last that the trowth of this thyng by succedyng of tyme myȝght be callyd in-to dowte.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 70. They … begunne to goo fro ful bittyr peynys to wars and so by succeding of her peynys dayly her tormentys besyly encresyn.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 58. Heir now, be a commoune vse of succeiding, thay entir at thair awne hand without ony mair.
1679. [see SUCCEDENT A. 2].
† 3. Consequence, result. Obs.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, II. iii. 199. Is it not a Language I speake? Par. A most harsh one, and not to bee vnderstoode without bloudie succeeding.
† 4. The act of following in the place of something. Obs.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, viii. 55. A violent succeeding of ayre in the roome of the fire.
