succeedable

English edit

Etymology edit

succeed +‎ -able

Adjective edit

succeedable (comparative more succeedable, superlative most succeedable)

(nonstandard) Able or likely to meet or be met with success.
- 1700, [Francis Grant, Lord Cullen], A Discourse concerning the Execution of the Laws, made against Prophaneness, etc., page 24:
  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.
- 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:
  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 […]
- 1988, Boris Aldanov, The Human Predicament, APH Publishing, →ISBN, page 208:
  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 […]
- 2015 February 9, Linda L. Boling, Personalized Stress Relief for Mind, Body, and Spirit, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
  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.
- 2016 November 9, D. Penner, K. Ferdinand, Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN, page 17:
  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.
(rare) Able to be succeeded or passed on.
- 1909, Reports of cases argued and determined in Ohio courts of record except Supreme and Circuit, page 271:
  […] , 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, […]
- 2003, Stephen Fried, The New Rabbi, Bantam, →ISBN, page 188:
  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."
- 2020, Heike Fischer, Rob J. F. Burton, “Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles”, in Sociologia Ruralis‎^[1], volume 54, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 433–34:
  […] 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.