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vicissiˈtudinous, a.
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
1. Marked by vicissitudes; subject to various or frequent changes of fortune.
1846Worcester (citing Q. Rev.). 1853J. Stevenson in Trans. Ch. Historians Eng. II. 227 In this mode was the king's administration conducted during the whole of his vicissitudinous life. 1865Reader 23 Sept. 335/1 His career has been vicissitudinous in the highest degree. 1891Sat. Rev. 4 July 2/1 A second Oxford innings, which, though ‘vicissitudinous’, almost equalled the first Cambridge total.
2. Of a person: That has experienced changes of fortune or circumstances.
1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1870) II. 189 An Englishman..who suggests himself as a kind of contrast to this warlike and vicissitudinous backwoodsman. |