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Definition of Vicissitude
Vicissitude Vicissitude Vi*cis"si*tude, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis
change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.]
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 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.
