Word Meanings - SEQUACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden. 2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable. In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile

Additional info about word: SEQUACIOUS

1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden. 2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable. In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious. Ray. 3. Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought. The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEQUACIOUS)

• Servile
• Obsequious
• cringing
• sequacious
• menial
• sneaking
• low
• abject

Related words: (words related to SEQUACIOUS)

• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• MENIAL
  maisniée, maisnie, LL. mansionaticum. See Mansion, and cf. Meine, n., 1. Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden. 2. Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic
• SNEAK
  1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
• SEQUACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being sequacious.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• SNEAKING
  Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
• SNEAKY
  Like a sneak; sneaking.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• ABJECTEDNESS
  A very abject or low condition; abjectness. Boyle.
• CRINGELING
  One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
• SNEAKSBY
  A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
• ABJECTLY
  Meanly; servilely.
• SNEAKINESS
  The quality of being sneaky.
• ABJECTNESS
  The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.
• CATAMENIAL
  Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
• SACRING
  a. & n. from Sacre. Sacring bell. See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
• SCRINGE
  To cringe.
• CRINGE
  To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad