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Webster 1913 Edition
Vicissitude
Vi-cis′si-tude
,Noun.
1.
Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
God made two great lights . . .
To illuminate the earth and rule the day
In their
To illuminate the earth and rule the day
In their
vicissitude
, and rule the night. Milton.
2.
Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
This man had, after many
vicissitudes
of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vicissitude
VICIS'SITUDE
,Noun.
1.
Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.2.
Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.