sequacious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: se=qua=cious

CIDE DICTIONARY

sequacious, a. [L. sequax, -acis, fr. suquit to follow. See Sue to follow. ].

•  Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.  [1913 Webster]

  "Trees uprooted left their place,
  Sequacious of the lyre."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.  [1913 Webster]

  "In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.  [1913 Webster]

  "The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day."  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sequacious, adj.
1 (of reasoning or a reasoner) not inconsequent, coherent.
2 archaic inclined to follow, lacking independence or originality, servile.

Derivative

sequaciously adv. sequacity n.

Etymology

L sequax f. sequi follow

ROGET THESAURUS

sequacious

Sequence

N sequence, coming after, going after, consecution, succession, posteriority, continuation, order of succession, successiveness, paracme, secondariness, subordinancy, afterbirth, afterburden, placenta, secundines, succeeding, v, sequent, subsequent, consequent, sequacious, proximate, next, consecutive, alternate, amoebean, latter, posterior, after, subsequently, behind, sequence, coming after, (time), following pursuit, follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train, subsequent, next, succeeding, following, behind, in the rear, in the train of, in the wake of, after.

Softness

N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.

Tenacity

N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.