a. Obs. [ad. late L. successōrius, f. successor SUCCESSOR: see -ORY. Cf. It., Pg. successorio.] Succeeding by inheritance, hereditary.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-martyr, 288. Which may often fall out in states, which elect their Princes, because there are many limitations, but in Successorie princes, it cannot hold.
1619. Time’s Store House, V. xxiii. 518/2. It is manifest, dignities which were but the bare names of personal Offices, to haue at length become hereditary and successory.
1641. Mann. Holding Parl. in Eng., 27. Our King’s … granted an hereditary and successory perpetuity unto honourable titles.
