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Definition of Vicissitudes

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.

Meaning of Vicissitudes from wikipedia

- Vicissitudes is an album by pianist Barry Harris recorded in 1972 and released on the German MPS label. All compositions by Barry Harris except as indicated...
- her as "among all the gods the most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes." Pausanias states that there was an altar in Athens dedicated to Eleos...
- Les trois souhaits, ou Les vicissitudes de la vie, H. 175, The three wishes, or life's tribulations, Czech Tři přání, is a film opera by Czech composer...
- for there has been a significant number of patients who, following the vicissitudes of their first years on L-DOPA, came to do – and still do – extremely...
- searingly funny and beautiful show is an at-times raw examination of the vicissitudes of working motherhood, crackling with feminist verve and energy, that...
- Glory and Gold (1967), Amerika Cleopatra (1968), and Vain Victory: Vicissitudes of the ****ed (1971). Curtis appeared in the films Andy Warhol's Flesh...
- mountainous areas of the Caucasus. Mountain Jews survived numerous historical vicissitudes by settling in extremely remote and mountainous areas. They were known...
- wealth, quality, and prestige may well shield it from any conceivable vicissitudes. Spaulding, Christina (1989). "****ual Shakedown". In Trumpbour, John...
- conflict due to their membership in the low-status club, and the many vicissitudes of life in high school and as a teenager. The series' sixth and final...
- hesitation, frustration, delay and the wasting of time, thus symbolising the vicissitudes of human life consumed in unsuccessful efforts. He was condemned to spend...