sequacious – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of sequacious

Adjective: sequacious

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore sequacious
Superlativemost sequacious

Sample Sentences

  • 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 A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "Forge"]
  • 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...
  • The scheme of pantheistic omniscience, so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day,... would have found little favour with the religious and philosophic nescience of St Austin. [1853, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, 2nd ed., p. 787]
  • Here... he could wander out into the woods alone (after he had shaken off the attentions of the too sequacious Almeda). [1885, Charles Grant B. Allen, Babylon, volume I, page 228:]
  • After plowing through some names—including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, “the great Lou Dobbs” and the incomparably sequacious Steve Doocy... Trump caught himself... [2018 August 6, Erik Wemple, “What a Dumb Weekend”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2018:]
  • 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:]
  • 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 & Manners”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 546:]

Etymology

Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -acious (adjective-forming suffix). See: Latin Adjectives 'sequāx'.