Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Succeed

Succeed , transitive verb

[Latin succedere, successum; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: compare French succéder. See Cede, and compare Success.]

1.
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
As he saw him nigh succeed. — Spenser
2.
To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obsolete & Rare] — Shakespeare
3.
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Destructive effects... succeeded the curse. — Sir T. Browne
4.
To support; to prosper; to promote. [Rare]
Succeed my wish and second my design. — Dryden

Succeed , intransitive verb

1.
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. — Sir M. Hale
Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! — Milton
2.
To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
No woman shall succeed in Salique land. — Shakespeare
3.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. — Shakespeare
4.
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition. — Dryden
Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. — Dryden
5.
To go under cover. [A latinism. Obsolete]
Will you to the cooler cave succeed! — Dryden