succeedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succeedable
form: most succeedable
Etymology: From succeed + -able.
Senses: examples: text: However others may hold back, any Man who intends for Heaven in the Right Road discovers to himself and the World his insincerity; if he forbear to enter without delay upon this Duty: Now after it is become plain and succeedable, however the omission might have been excused hitherto by inconsideration and Difficulty.
ref: 1700, [Francis Grant, Lord Cullen], A Discourse concerning the Execution of the Laws, made against Prophaneness, etc., page 24:
text: I should have thought the Assyrian tale very succeedable. I saw, in Mr. Wedderburn Webster's poetry, that he had written my epitaph; I would rather have written his. The thing I have sent you, you will see at a glimpse, could[…]
ref: 1817 March 9, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, “Letter to Mr. Murray”, in R. E. Prothero, editor, The Works of Lord Byron. […] Letters and Journals, volume 4, published 1900, page 71:
text: In this succeedable endeavour, the creature, by virtue of correct behaviour-thinking, finds himself always "just a split-second ahead of time" and "just a hairsbreadth closer in space", so that his goals are ever within reach[…]
ref: 1988, Boris Aldanov, The Human Predicament, APH Publishing, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Take Chances But Only Ones That You Actually Have A Chance Of Succeeding At / Know when you can choose to act and not choose to act by trusting your intuition to guide you to the next succeed-able challenge.
ref: 2015 February 9, Linda L. Boling, Personalized Stress Relief for Mind, Body, and Spirit, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: These churches joined together for worship and charitable deeds. So I was the Jolicoeurs' granddaughter. They just demanded more of people they thought were "succeedable" material. They were not going to let me fail.
ref: 2016 November 9, D. Penner, K. Ferdinand, Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Able or likely to meet or be met with success.
examples: text: […], it is said that such a trust is not succeedable for the reason that a court "could not appoint a successor trustee because it could not invest him with the confidence of the testator." Hinckley v. Hinckley, […]
ref: 1909, Reports of cases argued and determined in Ohio courts of record except Supreme and Circuit, page 271:
text: Vogel said he was convinced that while Wolpe had a remarkable career, "he is succeedable. He's most noted for his wonderful oratory, but he wasn't all things to all people, nobody in his position ever is."
ref: 2003, Stephen Fried, The New Rabbi, Bantam, →ISBN, page 188:
text: […] farm transfer requires the long-term socialisation of a successor, the long-term iterative simultaneous development of a succeedable farm […] For example, a period of hardship at any stage of a farm’s development could result in […] a situation where 20 years later there is no-one prepared to take-over the farm, and no farm in a condition worth taking over.
ref: 2020, Heike Fischer, Rob J. F. Burton, “Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles”, in Sociologia Ruralis, volume 54, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 433–34:
glosses: Able to be succeeded or passed on.