Word Meanings - SUBALTERNATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Subalternate; successive.

SUBALTERNATE
1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
SUCCESSIVELY
In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton.
SUCCESSIVE
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
SUCCESSIVENESS
The quality or state of being successive.