consecutiveness &c adj.; succession, round, suite, progression, series,
train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course;
ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file,
line of battle, array.
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family,
house; line, line of ancestors; strain.
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
colonnade.
V. follow in a series, form a series &c n.; fall in.
arrange in a series, collate &c n.; string together, file, thread,
graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c
n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting†; unremitting, unrelenting
(perseverence) 604.1; perennial, evergreen; constant.
Adv. continuously &c adj.; seriatim; in a line &c n.; in succession, in
turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim [Lat.], at a stretch;
in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.