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Sequacious
//sɪˈkweɪʃəs// adj
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Adjective
- 1 Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded. obsolete
"Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath."
- 2 Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
"See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion."
- 3 Following neatly or smoothly.
"And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise."
- 4 Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
"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."
Etymology
Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix).
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