Sequacious

/sɪˈkweɪʃəs/ · adjective

Meaning

(of objects, obsolete) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of objects, obsolete) Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
2. (of people) Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
3. (of music notes or poetic feet) Following neatly or smoothly.
4. (of thought) Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.

Example Sentences

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.

Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.

Now extract From the sequacious earth the pole.

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...

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.

See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.

By seeming to... admire their many new masters, and their rarer gifts; which make them worthy indeed of such soft and sequacious disciples.

Here... he could wander out into the woods alone (after he had shaken off the attentions of the too sequacious Almeda).

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• more sequacious
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