# sequacious
## English
### Etymology

Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/
* Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

### Adjective

sequacious (comparative more sequacious, superlative most sequacious)
* (Of objects, obsolete) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
** 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise on the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man, page 321:Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.
** 1752, Christopher Smart, Hop Garden, page 67:Now extract From the sequacious earth the pole.
** 1755 April, Samuel Johnson translating Bacon in A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "Forge":
    In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious and obedient to the stroke of the artificer, and apt to be drawn, formed, and moulded.
* (Of people) Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
** 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible, page 69:See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.
** 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes, Preface:By seeming to... admire their many new masters, and their rarer gifts; which make them worthy indeed of such soft and sequacious disciples.
** 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...
** 1853, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, 2nd ed., p. 787:
    The scheme of pantheistic omniscience, so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day,... would have found little favour with the religious and philosophic nescience of St Austin.
** 1885, Charles Grant B. Allen, Babylon, volume I, page 228:Here... he could wander out into the woods alone (after he had shaken off the attentions of the too sequacious Almeda).
** 2018 August 6, Erik Wemple, “What a Dumb Weekend”, in The Washington Post:After plowing through some names—including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, “the great Lou Dobbs” and the incomparably sequacious Steve Doocy... Trump caught himself...
* (Of musical notes or poetic feet) Following neatly or smoothly.
** 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Effusion, Canto xxxv:And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise.
** 1864, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster‎, page 243:That Hellenic speech... that rises and falls in Plato with the long sequacious music of an Æolian lute.
* (Of thought) Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
** 1835 August, Thomas De Quincey, “Sketches of Life & Manners”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 546: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.

#### Usage notes

In the sense of "often following", sequacious originally described the leader or leaders using the prepositions to and of but this format is now considered obsolete.

#### Synonyms

* (easily shaped): ductile, pliant, malleable, tractable
* (easily led): subservient, servile, following, attendant, credulous, unoriginal, tractable, obedient
* (following smoothly): flowing

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “following logically”): rambling, discursive, extensive

#### Derived terms

* sequaciously
* sequaciousness

#### Related terms
### References

* “sequacious, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1912.
* "sequacious, adj.", in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Vol. XXIII, 1828.
* "WaPo: Doocy 'Incomparably Sequacious'" in "Latest Trends", Merriam-Webster, 6 August 2018.