Sequacious vs Obsequious - What's the difference?
sequacious | obsequious |
Tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* De Quincey
Following along; attendant.
* 1687 , Dryden, first ode for St. Cecilia's Day
ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable
* Ray
(archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
* 1927 , (Thornton Wilder), (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) , p. 20
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
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As adjectives the difference between sequacious and obsequious
is that sequacious is tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive while obsequious is (archaic) obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.sequacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.
- 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.
- Orpheus could lead the savage race;
- And trees uprooted left their place;
- Sequacious of the lyre.
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious .
obsequious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
- … the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow…
- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.