succeedable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able or likely to meet or be met with success.

   • 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[…]
   • 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[…]
2. 2

   Able to be succeeded or passed on.

   • […], 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, […]
   • 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."

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