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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sequacious \Se*qua"cious\, a. [L. sequax, -acis, fr. suquit to follow. See Sue to follow. ] 1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. [1913 Webster] Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable. [1913 Webster] In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious. --Ray. [1913 Webster] 3. Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought. [1913 Webster] The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] 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. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]