Meaning of SEQUACIOUS
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Se*qua"cious\, a. [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.
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