Category:Vicissitude

Vi*cis"si*tude, n. Etym: [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.