Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Successive \Suc*ces"sive\, a. [Cf. F. successif. See {Succeed}.]
   1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming
      after without interruption or interval; following one
      after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the
      successive revolution of years; the successive kings of
      Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.

            Send the successive ills through ages down. --Prior.

   2. Having or giving the right of succeeding to an
      inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a
      successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] --Shak.

   {Successive induction}. (Math.) See {Induction}, 5.