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vicissitudinary en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin vicissitūdin- + -ary, from oblique stem of Latin vicissitūdō, from vicis + -tūdō. By surface analysis, vicissitude + -ary.

Meanings

1. (rare) pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation.
   • We say the elements of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill ... 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (XIII. Meditation. Project Gutenberg)

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Synonyms

vicissitudinous