sequacious

Dec. 21st, 2012 08:15 am
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sequacious (si-KWEY-shuhs) - adj., to follow with smooth or logical regularity; to slavishly or unreasoningly following another person, intellectually servile.


The first sense is used of, for ex, the content of essays or (famously by Coleridge) poetry. The original sense, now obsolete, was of a person, but simply in the sense of being inclined to follow a leader, without the connotation of servility. Coined in the 1640s from Latin sequāx, pursuing, from sequi, to follow (the third-person present tense of which is sequitur, as in a non-).

---L.

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