Middle English Dictionary Entry
succẹ̄dent adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | succẹ̄dent adj. Also succident. |
| Etymology | L succēdens, -entis, ppl. of succēdere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Coming after in the course of events, following, succeeding; also, as noun: that which succeeds something else, that which carries on from a certain point; (b) astrol. as noun: one of the houses following the four principal houses, i.e., the second, fifth, eighth, or eleventh.
Associated quotations
a
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)1034 : Thilk vigne broght noght furth grapes at ones in o moment, Bot first lef and than flowres and grapes succedent.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1124 : Vngreyned grape..Me may suppe of, as saunz impediment And al on wyn; This Greek auctorite So macth to craft nature a succedent [L succedente natura].
b
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.4.52 : The lord of the ascendent..is fortunat whan he is in god place fro the ascendent, as in an angle, or in a succident where as he is in hys dignite and comfortid with frendly aspectes of planetes.