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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)