sequacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more sequacious
form: most sequacious
Etymology: Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -ious (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise on the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man, page 321:
text: Now extract
From the sequacious earth the pole.
ref: 1752, Christopher Smart, Hop Garden, page 67:
text: 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.
ref: 1755 April, Samuel Johnson translating Bacon in A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "Forge"
qualifier: Of objects
glosses: Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
examples: text: See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.
ref: 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible, page 69:
text: By seeming to... admire their many new masters, and their rarer gifts; which make them worthy indeed of such soft and sequacious disciples.
ref: 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes, Preface:
text: 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...
text: 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.
ref: 1853, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, 2nd ed., p. 787
text: Here... he could wander out into the woods alone (after he had shaken off the attentions of the too sequacious Almeda).
ref: 1885, Charles Grant B. Allen, Babylon, volume I, page 228:
text: 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...
ref: 2018 August 6, Erik Wemple, “What a Dumb Weekend”, in The Washington Post:
qualifier: Of people
glosses: Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
examples: text: And now, its strings
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes
Over delicious surges sink and rise.
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Effusion, Canto xxxv:
text: That Hellenic speech... that rises and falls in Plato with the long sequacious music of an Æolian lute.
ref: 1864, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster, page 243:
qualifier: Of music notes or poetic feet
glosses: Following neatly or smoothly.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1835 August, Thomas De Quincey, “Sketches of Life & Manners”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 546:
qualifier: Of thought
glosses: Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
Synonyms: sense: easily shaped
word: ductile
sense: easily shaped
word: pliant
sense: easily shaped
word: malleable
sense: easily shaped
word: tractable
sense: easily led
word: subservient
sense: easily led
word: servile
sense: easily led
word: following
sense: easily led
word: attendant
sense: easily led
word: credulous
sense: easily led
word: unoriginal
sense: easily led
word: tractable
sense: easily led
word: obedient
sense: following smoothly
word: flowing
Derived terms: sequaciously
sequaciousness