Sequacious
(Se*qua"cious) a. [L. sequax, -acis, fr. suquit to follow. See Sue to follow. ]
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. Sequaciousness
(Se*qua"cious*ness), n. Quality of being sequacious.
Sequacity
(Se*quac"i*ty) n. [L. sequacitas.] Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.
Bacon.
Sequel
(Se"quel) n. [L. sequela, fr. sequit to follow: cf. F. séquelle a following. See Sue to follow.]
1. That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
O, let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.
Shak. 2. Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
3. Conclusion; inference. [R.] Whitgift.
Sequela
(||Se*que"la) n.; pl. Sequelæ [L., a follower, a result, from sequit to follow.] One who, or that
which, follows. Specifically: (a) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela."
G. P. Marsh. (b) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequelæ, or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms.
Coleridge. (c) (Med.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Sequence
(Se"quence) n. [F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent.]
1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
How art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession?
Shak.
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
Bacon. 2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
Bp. Hall. 3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative
energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
