sequacious
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/
sequacious
- (Of objects, obsolete) Prone to following or yielding to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
- 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise on the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man, p. 321:
- Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.
- 1752, Christopher Smart, Hop Garden, p. 67:
- Now extract
From the sequacious earth the pole.
- Now extract
- 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.
- 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise on the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man, p. 321:
- (Of people) Prone to following or yielding to another or others, especially (pejorative) slavish or unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
- 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible, p. 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...
- Orpheus could lead the savage race;
- 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, Vol. I, p. 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...
- 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible, p. 69:
- (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.
- And now, its strings
- 1864, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, "Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster" ↗, p. 243:
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Effusion", Canto xxxv:
- (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, p. 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.
- 1835 August, Thomas De Quincey, "Sketches of Life & Manners" in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p. 546:
- (easily shaped) ductile, pliant, malleable, tractable
- (easily led) subservient, servile, following, attendant, credulous, unoriginal, tractable, obedient
- (following smoothly) flowing
- (following logically) rambling, discursive, extensive
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