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sequacious

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se·qua·cious  (s-kwshs)
adj.
1. Persisting in a continuous intellectual or stylistic direction: "I make these notes, but am tired of notes . . . I want something sequacious now & robust" (Virginia Woolf).
2.
a. Disposed to follow another or others, as a leader.
b. Slavishly unthinking and uncritical.
[From Latin sequx, sequc-, pursuing, from sequ, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.]
se·quacious·ly adv.
se·quaci·ty (-kws-t) n.
sequacious [sɪˈkweɪʃəs]
adj
1. logically following in regular sequence
2. ready to follow any leader; pliant
[from Latin sequāx pursuing, from sequī to follow]
sequaciously  adv
sequacity  [sɪˈkwæsɪtɪ] n
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But the frequent disappointments, incident to that method of provision, induced them to gather together such animals as were of a more tame and sequacious nature; and to establish a permanent property in their flocks and herds, in order to sustain themselves in a less precarious manner, partly by the milk of the dams, and partly by the flesh of the young.
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Yet a shapely and marmorcal oeuvre it isn't: fragments abound; so does weak poetry; much of the prose makes Emerson seem a model of sequacious lucidity; and a general dishevelment mars the work as a whole.
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