Sequacious

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sequacious \Se*qua"cious\, a. [L. sequax, -acis, fr. suquit to
     follow. See {Sue} to follow. ]
     1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
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              Trees uprooted left their place,


              Sequacious of the lyre.               --Dryden.
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     2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
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              In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter
              being ductile and sequacious.         --Ray.
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     3. Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent
        and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of
        thought.
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              The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent
              among the sequacious thinkers of the day. --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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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.                              --De Quincey.
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