sequacious

adjective /sɪˈkweɪʃəs/

1. Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.

   obsolete

   Of all Fire there is none so ductile, so sequacious and obsequious as this of Wrath.

2. Likely to follow, conform, or yield to others, especially showing unthinking adherence to others' ideas; easily led.

   See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.

3. Following neatly or smoothly.

   Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise.

   And now, its strings

4. Following logically or in an unvarying and orderly procession, tending in a single intellectual direction.

   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.

Where it comes from

Derived from Latin sequāx (“a follower”), from sequī (“to follow”), + -acious (adjective-forming suffix).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sequacious (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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