Adverb
In a successive manner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPlato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. Diogenes Laërtius
Citizens, we have reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, will successively devour all its children, and finally produce despotism, with the calamities that accompany it. Pierre Vergniaud
It is no exaggeration to state that the classic culture of Tlön comprises only one discipline: psychology. All others are subordinated to it. I have said that the men of this planet conceive the universe as a series of mental processes which do not develop in space but successively in time. Jorge Luis Borges
... cell of a tentacle, showing the various forms successively assumed by the aggregated masses of protoplasm. Charles Darwin
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Victor Hugo
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. Simon Raven