Definition for VI-CIS'SI-TUDE

VI-CIS'SI-TUDE, n. [L. vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn.]

  1. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.
  2. Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.

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