sequacious

Adjective

1. Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
   • Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath. - 1640, Edward Reynolds, A Treatise on the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man, page 321:
   • Now extract From the sequacious earth the pole. - 1752, Christopher Smart, Hop Garden, page 67:
   • 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. - 1755 April, Samuel Johnson translating Bacon in...
2. Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.
   • See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion. - 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible, page 69:
   • By seeming to... admire their many new masters, and their rarer gifts; which make them worthy indeed of such soft and sequacious disciples. - 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes, Preface:
   • 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...
3. Following neatly or smoothly.
   • And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise. - 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Effusion, Canto xxxv:
   • That Hellenic speech... that rises and falls in Plato with the long sequacious music of an Æolian lute. - 1864, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster, page 243:
4. Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.
   • 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 &...