Prononciations
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/sɪˈkweɪʃəs/
Adjectif
Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
Usage- désuet
- of objects
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Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.
Now extract From the sequacious earth the pole.
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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.
Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
Usage- of people
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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.
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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.
Here... he could wander out into the woods alone (after he had shaken off the attentions of the too sequacious Almeda).
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...
Following neatly or smoothly.
Usage- of music notes or poetic feet
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And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise.
That Hellenic speech... that rises and falls in Plato with the long sequacious music of an Æolian lute.
Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
Usage- of thought
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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.