vicissitudinary

English

Etymology

From Latin vicissitudo.

Adjective

vicissitudinary (comparative more vicissitudinary, superlative most vicissitudinary)

1. (rare) pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation.
   • 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (XIII. Meditation. Project Gutenberg):

     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 ...

Synonyms

• vicissitudinous

References

• vicissitudinary in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• Mrs. Byrne [Josefa Heifetz Byrne] (1979) “vicissitudinary”, in Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, London: Granada Publishing, →ISBN.