a. and sb. Now Obs. or rare. Also 6–9 succedant, 9 succeedant, -ent. [ad. L. succēdens, -ent-, pr. pple. of succēdĕre to SUCCEED.] A. adj.
1. Following, succeeding, subsequent. Const. to.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 35. First lef and then flowres and grapes succedent.
1577. Harrison, England, I. vii. 7 b, in Holinshed. That after death it [sc. the soul] went in to another bodye, the seconde or succedent, being alwayes, eyther more noble, or more vile than the former. Ibid. (1587), II. v. 157, in Holinshed. Few of them doo agree vpon forme of discipline and gouernement of the church succedent.
1607. Walkington, Optic Glass, 63. Which causeth a great heate to bee ingendered ther by the coughing motion, which heat draws a succedent phleum.
1614. W. Bedwell, Nat. Geom. Numbers, iv. 63. The quotient 2 I place in the quotient for the side of the succedent cube.
1677. Cary, Palæol. Chron., II. I. § 1. xx. 144. The making of those XIV Dynasties succedent one to another, which for severals of them were coeval.
1797. Monthly Mag., XXXVI. 214. There must have been a precedent, and there also must be a succedent state.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 158. Each having an existence of its own, but presenting in its terms antecedent and succedant, analogies which [etc.].
b. Her.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 485/2. Succedant, succeeding, following one another.
1828–40. Berry, Encycl. Her., I.
2. Astrol. Succedent houses: the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th houses (see quots.).
1591. Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 64. The 2. 5. 8. and 11. be called the houses Succedants.
1601. Dolman, La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618), III. 690. Those fowre [houses of heaven] which begin at the foure foresaid angles, are named Angularie houses: the next fowre following are called Succedent, and the rest Cadent.
1671. Blagrave, Astrol. Pract. Phys., 164. For common signs, and succedant houses we usually allow somewhat above half so much as we do for first signs.
1679. Moxon, Math. Dict., Succedent-Houses, Are so called, because they succeed or follow Angles in a Celestial Figure; as the 11th. the 2d. the 5th. and the 8th. which succeeding, is yet not so much in Order, as in Condition and Dignity.
1819. Jas. Wilson, Dict. Astrol., 165. In a succeedent house, moveable signs give months.
B. sb.
† 1. A thing that follows another. Obs.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., III. 1124. This Greek auctorite So macth to craft nature a succedent.
1608. J. King, Serm., 5 Nov., 17. A succedent I graunt, nearest vnto it of al others.
2. Astrol. A ‘succedent house’ (see A 2).
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 4. The lord of the assendent … is fortunat, whan he is … in a succedent, where-as he is in his dignite & conforted with frendly aspectys of planetes.
1591. Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 176. There be foure called angles, and foure succedants, and foure cadants.
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 32. In the succedent was Aquarius.
† 3. A result, issue. Obs. rare.
1627. E. F., Hist. Edw. II. (1680), 143. Such is the mutability of the inconstant Vulgar, desirous of new things, but never contented; despising the time being, extolling that of their Forefathers, and ready to act any mischief to try by alteration the succedent.
