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Webster 1913 Edition


Sequacious

Se-qua′cious

,
Adj.
[L.
sequax
,
-acis
, fr.
suquit
to follow. See
Sue
to follow. ]
1.
Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Trees uprooted left their place,
Sequacious
of the lyre.
Dryden.
2.
Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and
sequacious
.
Ray.
3.
Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the
sequacious
thinkers of the day.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and
sequacious
, like those of the planets.
De Quincey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sequacious

SEQUA'CIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. sequax, from sequor, to follow. See Seek.]
1. Following; attendant.
Trees uprooted left their place,

Definition 2024


sequacious

sequacious

English

Adjective

sequacious (comparative more sequacious, superlative most sequacious)

  1. Tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.
    • Sir W. Hamilton
      The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.
    • De Quincey
      Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets.
    • 2010, Stephen Donaldson, Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, Hachette UK (ISBN 9780575087095)
      When she closed her fingers around it, the shapes flared briefly once more, and she saw that they were indeed runes: inexplicable to her, but sequacious and acute.
  2. Following along; attendant.
    • 1687, Dryden, first ode for St. Cecilia's Day
      Orpheus could lead the savage race;
      And trees uprooted left their place;
      Sequacious of the lyre.
  3. ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable
    • Ray
      In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious.