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sequacious | sequaciousness |

As an adjective sequacious

is tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.

As a noun sequaciousness is

the state or condition of being sequacious.

sequacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.
  • * De Quincey
    • 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.
  • Following along; attendant.
  • * 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.
  • ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable
  • * Ray
    • In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious .

    sequaciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being sequacious.