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Successively   /səksˈɛsɪvli/   Listen
Successively

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






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... An Account of the Voyages undertaken by order of his Majesty, George III, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere; and successively performed, by Commodore Byron, Captains Wallis and ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... dynasty in its turn succumbed before the invasion of the Kassites from the mountains in the western districts of Elam, and, although the city of Babylon retained her position as the capital of the country throughout these changes of government, she was the capital of rulers of different races, who successively fought for and obtained the control of the fertile ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall

... towards the centre; but the increase, which is unusual, is towards the outside, the gain being successively six, four, and ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin

... professors. Gladstone gives the true historic idea of a university in these words: "To methodize, perpetuate and apply all knowledge which exists and to adopt and take up into itself every new branch as it comes successively into existence." ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker

... tobacco has been patented by Mr. F. B. Deane, of Lynchburg, Va. It consists mainly in the construction of a suspended jack, arranged to travel over a row of hogsheads, so that a single jack gives successively to each hogshead ...
— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various


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