† vicissitudinaladj.
Obsolete. rare.
Vicissitudinous.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [adjective]
wavering?a1513
vicissitudinal1588
vicissitudal1598
vicissitudinarious1667
vicissitudinarianc1729
vicissitudinous1846
vicissitous1865
1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 23 A vicissitudinall conuersion, or temporall transformation of the elementarie or terrestriall globe of this world.
Derivatives
vicissitudiˈnarian adj.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [adjective]
wavering?a1513
vicissitudinal1588
vicissitudal1598
vicissitudinarious1667
vicissitudinarianc1729
vicissitudinous1846
vicissitous1865
c1729 in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 210 Here we measure not time, nor have we need of your vicissitudinarian planet called the sun.
vicissitudiˈnarious adj.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [adjective]
wavering?a1513
vicissitudinal1588
vicissitudal1598
vicissitudinarious1667
vicissitudinarianc1729
vicissitudinous1846
vicissitous1865
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 2 God,..by whom only they [sc. dreadful effects] can be transformed into comforts (which as elementary and vicissitudinarious, they can in no true sense be).
vicissitudiˈnariously adv.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [adverb]
up and down1430
vicissitudally1612
vicissitudinariously1715
1715 Meteorological Essays II. 191 Vicissitudinariously.
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adj.1588