sequacious

Etymology

Latin sequax, sequacis, from sequor (“to follow”).

Adjective

sequacious (comparative more sequacious, superlative most sequacious)

1. Tending in a continuous intellectual direction; not rambling or discursive.
   • Sir W. Hamilton

     The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.

   • De Quincey

     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.

   • 2010, Stephen Donaldson, Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, Hachette UK →ISBN

     When she closed her fingers around it, the shapes flared briefly once more, and she saw that they were indeed runes: inexplicable to her, but sequacious and acute.

2. Following along; attendant.
   • 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. ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable
   • Ray

     In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious.