vicissituden.

Brit.

/vᵻˈsɪsᵻtjuːd/,

/vᵻˈsɪsᵻtʃuːd/,

/vʌɪˈsɪsᵻtjuːd/,

/vʌɪˈsɪsᵻtʃuːd/, U.S.

/vəˈsɪsəˌt(j)ud/

Etymology: < Old French and French vicissitude (14th cent.), or < Latin vicissitūdo , < vicis turn, change: see vice n.⁶ and vice- prefix. So Spanish vicisitud, Portuguese vicissitude, Italian vicissitudine.

a. The fact of change or mutation taking place in a particular thing or within a certain sphere; the uncertain changing or mutability of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]

unstablenessc1340

varyingc1380

uncertaintyc1384

brotelnessc1386

were1390

instabilityc1422

bricklenessa1425

changeability?a1425

changeableness1447

vertibility1447

mutability?a1475

variableness?a1475

inconstance1509

mutationa1542

fickleness1548

variety1548

unconstancy1563

mobility1567

unstability1572

vicissitude1576

variousness1607

inconstancy1613

slipperinessa1618

alterableness1633

versatilousness1640

bottomlessness1642

lability1651

brittlety1652

versatileness1654

fluctuancy1659

fugitivenessa1661

alterability1661

permutability1662

unfixedness1668

mutablenessa1677

flittingnessa1680

frailness1687

flittiness1692

versability1721

plasticity1727

variability1771

unestablishment1776

fluctuabilitya1786

changefulness1791

unsettledness1799

versatility1802

harlequinism1808

fluidity1824

fitfulness1825

sensitiveness1825

insubstantiality1848

contingency1858

rootlessness1859

shiftingness1866

ficklety1888

variancy1888

impredicability1906

proteanism1909

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 105 Richeborowe,..came to ruine, by the alteration and vicissitude of the Sea.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 331 The Vicissitude or Mutations, in the Superiour Globe, are no fit Matter, for this present Argument.

1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion iii. 268 O dire Vicissitude of Things!

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vi. 115 According to the Vicissitude and conversion of humane affairs, and the change of Monarchies.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvi. 153 The notice, that our Senses take of the constant Vicissitude of Things.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxv. 659 Take Compassion of the Fleeting Inconstancy and Vicissitude of the Dangers with which we, poor Mortals, are surrounded.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. vii. 606 And now, such is the vicissitude of life, we thought ourselves happy in having regained a situation, which but two days before it was the utmost object of our hope to quit.

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ii. 61 It is remarkable that this vicissitude of human things, this marked outline of the succession of Empires till our Lord should come, is laid open..to the Heathen Monarch.

b. With a, in the same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > instance of

mutabilityc1550

vicissitude1631

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 3 Of all things else there is a vicissitude, a change both of cities and nations.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §17 Because the glory of one State depends upon the ruine of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatnesse.

1753 S. Johnson Adventurer No. 95. ⁋5 There is likewise in composition, as in other things, a perpetual vicissitude of fashion.

1772 Birmingham Counterfeit II. viii. 106 Her history..abounds with such an amazing vicissitude of incidents.

2. Without article: Change, mutation, mutability, as a natural process or tendency in things or in life generally; successive substitution of one thing or condition for another, taking place from natural causes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > [noun]

wendingeOE

changing?c1225

stirringa1240

wrixlinga1240

changec1325

variancec1340

transmutationc1380

varyingc1380

whileness1382

translationc1384

alterationa1398

mutationa1398

removinga1425

revolutiona1425

shiftingc1440

changementc1450

muance1480

commutation1509

altry1527

transition1545

turning1548

novation1549

immutation?c1550

alterance1559

alienation1562

turn?1567

vicissitude1603

refraction1614

fermentationa1661

diabasis1672

parallax1677

motion1678

aliation1775

transience1946

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1310 He endeavoreth by vicissitude of mutations, and by periodicall passion, to continue alwaies yoong, as if he should never die and perish.

1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 32 Vicissitude impartially wild, The goodliest things be subiect to annoy.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 32 The Sisters Web of our lives is checkered with Vicissitude, The whole peece proving but a medley of Light and Shadow.

a1664 K. Philips Submission in Poems (1667) 108 Where were our Springs, our Harvests pleasent use, Unless Vicissitude did them produce.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 6 May 33 Whatever is left in the hands of Chance must be subject to vicissitude.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 142 Vicissitude wheels round the motley crowd, The rich grow poor, the poor become purse-proud.

1833–5 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) 3rd Ser. i. 1 This is a world of conflict, and of vicissitude amid the conflict.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 197 On such a fault-line atmospheric vicissitude has been effective.

3. A change or alteration in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in human affairs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > instance of

peripeteia1591

traverse1601

vicissitude1631

reverse1656

peripety1705

fluctuation1712

twine1768

revulsion1832

reversal1842

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > vicissitude

reversea1529

vicissitude1631

up and down1659

chequered career1869

splendours and miseries1943

splendeurs et misères1952

1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. iv. 38 in Wks. II Nature hath these vicissitudes. Shee makes No man a state of perpetuety, Sir.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 429 That the vicissitudes of War should be brought to a stay, if equall Counsels should be found on both sides.

1682 J. Flavell Righteous Man's Refuge in Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) 220 His people may find..rest and comfort amidst the vicissitudes of this unstable World.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 41 A deplorable instance of the Fortune of War, and Vicissitudes of humane Affairs.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xiv. 263 Mr. Collins promised, as far as he was able, to have an eye upon my vicissitudes.

1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 1 We shall treat first of the vicissitudes to which species are subject.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 281 My sturdy second officer,..long accustomed to the vicissitudes of whaling life, shed tears at the prospect.

1879 R. W. Church Spenser 31 For fifty years the English people had had before its eyes the great vicissitudes which make tragedy.

4. Alternation, mutual or reciprocal succession, of things or conditions; esp. alternating succession of opposite or contrasted things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > [noun]

interchangingc1374

alternationc1443

alternement1483

interchange1559

intercourse1571

reciprocation1586

circulation1597

counterchange1602

interchangeableness1606

subalternation1616

vicissitude1624

alternity1646

alternacy1650

alternative1732

variegation1781

fluctuation1802

alternance1826

up and down1855

intermittence1860

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iii. 211 At Berna..a shippe was digged out of a mountaine... Came this from Earth-quakes,..or is there a vicissitude of Sea and Land, as Anaximenes held of old[?].

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 105 Reason cannot conceive that an animall..should live in a continuall motion, without that alternity and vicissitude of rest whereby all others continue.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 8 Which makes through Heav'n Grateful vicissitude, like Day and Night.

1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 26 How the Church was under the Vicissitude of Orthodox and Arrian Emperors is very well known.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 143. ⁋1 This Vicissitude of Motion and Rest, which we call Life.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xiii. 259 When I consider, that various Vicissitude of Hopes and Fears, we had for twenty Years struggled with.

1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. i. ix. 111 Corporeal forms which are..in a constant vicissitude of generation and corruption.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 219 The succession of light and darkness,..the vicissitude of the seasons.

1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn II. 21 Her girlish shyness..made the colour come and go in rapid vicissitude upon her cheek.

5. An instance of alternation or succession; a change from one physical state to another, esp. as one of a constant series.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > [noun] > instance of

alternation1633

vicissitude1648

or something1814

Box and Cox1867

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. v. 183 How those vicissitudes of rarefaction and condensation may be maintained.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 3 The periodical and constant Vicissitudes of Day and Night.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 462 What Pangs, what Fires, what Racks didst Thou sustain? What sad Vicissitudes of smarting Pain?

a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 86 I kept close to Meetings, and to Business, in their proper Vicissitudes.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 6 The vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 352 Extreme heat and cold..are far more injurious when flowing in irregular vicissitudes, than when in an uniform tenour.

1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. iii. 90 The surface influence of descending rains, and all the agency of atmospheric vicissitudes.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 319 There must have been remarkable climatic vicissitudes during past ages.

†6. Reciprocation, return. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1565 Testimonial to R. Campbell in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 288 In doing whairof..so shall you bynd ws to the lik vicissitude.

†7.

a. A turn or occasion of action. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [noun]

thingOE

cause?c1225

why1303

casec1325

chesounc1330

skillc1340

mannerc1390

reasona1398

springa1500

impulsion1605

vicissitude1605

whereforea1616

hoti1646

dioti1651

secret1738

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H3^v In the next vicissitude and succession, he did send his diuine truth into the world.

†b. by vicissitudes, by turns. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb]

changeablyc1384

alternately1432

interchangeably1483

handy-dandya1529

time about1537

by course1548

at (by) intervals1588

alternatively1591

reciprocally1603

by reprises1607

alternally1627

alterably1635

altern1667

alternate1715

by vicissitudes1749

alternatingly1845

1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 64 These Moravian Mystics are the Persons, whom..Mr. Wesley represents by Vicissitudes as the best, and as the worst, of Men.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vicissitude
释义	vicissituden. Brit. /vᵻˈsɪsᵻtjuːd/, /vᵻˈsɪsᵻtʃuːd/, /vʌɪˈsɪsᵻtjuːd/, /vʌɪˈsɪsᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /vəˈsɪsəˌt(j)ud/ Etymology: < Old French and French vicissitude (14th cent.), or < Latin vicissitūdo , < vicis turn, change: see vice n.⁶ and vice- prefix. So Spanish vicisitud, Portuguese vicissitude, Italian vicissitudine. 1. a. The fact of change or mutation taking place in a particular thing or within a certain sphere; the uncertain changing or mutability of something. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] unstablenessc1340 varyingc1380 uncertaintyc1384 brotelnessc1386 were1390 instabilityc1422 bricklenessa1425 changeability?a1425 changeableness1447 vertibility1447 mutability?a1475 variableness?a1475 inconstance1509 mutationa1542 fickleness1548 variety1548 unconstancy1563 mobility1567 unstability1572 vicissitude1576 variousness1607 inconstancy1613 slipperinessa1618 alterableness1633 versatilousness1640 bottomlessness1642 lability1651 brittlety1652 versatileness1654 fluctuancy1659 fugitivenessa1661 alterability1661 permutability1662 unfixedness1668 mutablenessa1677 flittingnessa1680 frailness1687 flittiness1692 versability1721 plasticity1727 variability1771 unestablishment1776 fluctuabilitya1786 changefulness1791 unsettledness1799 versatility1802 harlequinism1808 fluidity1824 fitfulness1825 sensitiveness1825 insubstantiality1848 contingency1858 rootlessness1859 shiftingness1866 ficklety1888 variancy1888 impredicability1906 proteanism1909 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 105 Richeborowe,..came to ruine, by the alteration and vicissitude of the Sea. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 331 The Vicissitude or Mutations, in the Superiour Globe, are no fit Matter, for this present Argument. 1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion iii. 268 O dire Vicissitude of Things! 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vi. 115 According to the Vicissitude and conversion of humane affairs, and the change of Monarchies. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvi. 153 The notice, that our Senses take of the constant Vicissitude of Things. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxv. 659 Take Compassion of the Fleeting Inconstancy and Vicissitude of the Dangers with which we, poor Mortals, are surrounded. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. vii. 606 And now, such is the vicissitude of life, we thought ourselves happy in having regained a situation, which but two days before it was the utmost object of our hope to quit. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ii. 61 It is remarkable that this vicissitude of human things, this marked outline of the succession of Empires till our Lord should come, is laid open..to the Heathen Monarch. b. With a, in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > instance of mutabilityc1550 vicissitude1631 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 3 Of all things else there is a vicissitude, a change both of cities and nations. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §17 Because the glory of one State depends upon the ruine of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatnesse. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Johnson Adventurer No. 95. ⁋5 There is likewise in composition, as in other things, a perpetual vicissitude of fashion. 1772 Birmingham Counterfeit II. viii. 106 Her history..abounds with such an amazing vicissitude of incidents. 2. Without article: Change, mutation, mutability, as a natural process or tendency in things or in life generally; successive substitution of one thing or condition for another, taking place from natural causes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] wendingeOE changing?c1225 stirringa1240 wrixlinga1240 changec1325 variancec1340 transmutationc1380 varyingc1380 whileness1382 translationc1384 alterationa1398 mutationa1398 removinga1425 revolutiona1425 shiftingc1440 changementc1450 muance1480 commutation1509 altry1527 transition1545 turning1548 novation1549 immutation?c1550 alterance1559 alienation1562 turn?1567 vicissitude1603 refraction1614 fermentationa1661 diabasis1672 parallax1677 motion1678 aliation1775 transience1946 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1310 He endeavoreth by vicissitude of mutations, and by periodicall passion, to continue alwaies yoong, as if he should never die and perish. 1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 32 Vicissitude impartially wild, The goodliest things be subiect to annoy. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 32 The Sisters Web of our lives is checkered with Vicissitude, The whole peece proving but a medley of Light and Shadow. a1664 K. Philips Submission in Poems (1667) 108 Where were our Springs, our Harvests pleasent use, Unless Vicissitude did them produce. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 6 May 33 Whatever is left in the hands of Chance must be subject to vicissitude. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 142 Vicissitude wheels round the motley crowd, The rich grow poor, the poor become purse-proud. 1833–5 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) 3rd Ser. i. 1 This is a world of conflict, and of vicissitude amid the conflict. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 197 On such a fault-line atmospheric vicissitude has been effective. 3. A change or alteration in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in human affairs. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > instance of peripeteia1591 traverse1601 vicissitude1631 reverse1656 peripety1705 fluctuation1712 twine1768 revulsion1832 reversal1842 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > vicissitude reversea1529 vicissitude1631 up and down1659 chequered career1869 splendours and miseries1943 splendeurs et misères1952 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. iv. 38 in Wks. II Nature hath these vicissitudes. Shee makes No man a state of perpetuety, Sir. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 429 That the vicissitudes of War should be brought to a stay, if equall Counsels should be found on both sides. 1682 J. Flavell Righteous Man's Refuge in Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) 220 His people may find..rest and comfort amidst the vicissitudes of this unstable World. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 41 A deplorable instance of the Fortune of War, and Vicissitudes of humane Affairs. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xiv. 263 Mr. Collins promised, as far as he was able, to have an eye upon my vicissitudes. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 1 We shall treat first of the vicissitudes to which species are subject. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 281 My sturdy second officer,..long accustomed to the vicissitudes of whaling life, shed tears at the prospect. 1879 R. W. Church Spenser 31 For fifty years the English people had had before its eyes the great vicissitudes which make tragedy. 4. Alternation, mutual or reciprocal succession, of things or conditions; esp. alternating succession of opposite or contrasted things. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [noun] interchangingc1374 alternationc1443 alternement1483 interchange1559 intercourse1571 reciprocation1586 circulation1597 counterchange1602 interchangeableness1606 subalternation1616 vicissitude1624 alternity1646 alternacy1650 alternative1732 variegation1781 fluctuation1802 alternance1826 up and down1855 intermittence1860 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iii. 211 At Berna..a shippe was digged out of a mountaine... Came this from Earth-quakes,..or is there a vicissitude of Sea and Land, as Anaximenes held of old[?]. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 105 Reason cannot conceive that an animall..should live in a continuall motion, without that alternity and vicissitude of rest whereby all others continue. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 8 Which makes through Heav'n Grateful vicissitude, like Day and Night. View more context for this quotation 1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 26 How the Church was under the Vicissitude of Orthodox and Arrian Emperors is very well known. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 143. ⁋1 This Vicissitude of Motion and Rest, which we call Life. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xiii. 259 When I consider, that various Vicissitude of Hopes and Fears, we had for twenty Years struggled with. 1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. i. ix. 111 Corporeal forms which are..in a constant vicissitude of generation and corruption. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 219 The succession of light and darkness,..the vicissitude of the seasons. 1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn II. 21 Her girlish shyness..made the colour come and go in rapid vicissitude upon her cheek. 5. An instance of alternation or succession; a change from one physical state to another, esp. as one of a constant series. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [noun] > instance of alternation1633 vicissitude1648 or something1814 Box and Cox1867 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. v. 183 How those vicissitudes of rarefaction and condensation may be maintained. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 3 The periodical and constant Vicissitudes of Day and Night. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 462 What Pangs, what Fires, what Racks didst Thou sustain? What sad Vicissitudes of smarting Pain? a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 86 I kept close to Meetings, and to Business, in their proper Vicissitudes. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 6 The vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 352 Extreme heat and cold..are far more injurious when flowing in irregular vicissitudes, than when in an uniform tenour. 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. iii. 90 The surface influence of descending rains, and all the agency of atmospheric vicissitudes. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 319 There must have been remarkable climatic vicissitudes during past ages. †6. Reciprocation, return. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1565 Testimonial to R. Campbell in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 288 In doing whairof..so shall you bynd ws to the lik vicissitude. †7. a. A turn or occasion of action. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [noun] thingOE cause?c1225 why1303 casec1325 chesounc1330 skillc1340 mannerc1390 reasona1398 springa1500 impulsion1605 vicissitude1605 whereforea1616 hoti1646 dioti1651 secret1738 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H3^v In the next vicissitude and succession, he did send his diuine truth into the world. View more context for this quotation †b. by vicissitudes, by turns. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb] changeablyc1384 alternately1432 interchangeably1483 handy-dandya1529 time about1537 by course1548 at (by) intervals1588 alternatively1591 reciprocally1603 by reprises1607 alternally1627 alterably1635 altern1667 alternate1715 by vicissitudes1749 alternatingly1845 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 64 These Moravian Mystics are the Persons, whom..Mr. Wesley represents by Vicissitudes as the best, and as the worst, of Men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565
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