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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,