vicissitudinary

vicissitudinary
pertaining to change, alteration, or mutation.

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 ...


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  • Vicissitudinary — Vi*cis si*tu di*na*ry, a. Subject to vicissitudes. Donne. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • vicissitudinary — vi·cis·si·tu·di·nar·y (vĭ sĭs ĭ to͞odʹn ĕr ē, tyo͞odʹ ) also vi·cis·si·tu·di·nous ( to͞odʹn əs, tyo͞odʹ ) adj. Characterized by, full of, or subject to vicissitudes. * * * …   Universalium

  • vicissitudinary — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Lipova, Arad — Lipova   Town   Coat of arms …   Wikipedia

  • vicissitudinous — adjective Characterized by or filled with vicissitudes. Syn: vicissitudinary …   Wiktionary

  • adrift — Synonyms and related words: abashed, aberrant, abroad, afloat, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alternating, amiss, amorphous, askew, astray, at fault, at sea, aweigh, awry, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bewildered,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • afloat — Synonyms and related words: aboard, accidental, accompanying, ado, adrift, afoot, all aboard, aloft, alternating, amorphous, astir, at flood, at sea, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, awash, aweigh, bandied about, before the mast, bruited about,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • amorphous — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating, amorphic, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, changeable,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • capricious — Synonyms and related words: adrift, afloat, agnostic, aimless, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, arbitrary, at loose ends, brittle, broken, careening, careless, casual, catchy, chancy, changeable, changeful, changing,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • changeable — Synonyms and related words: able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alterable, alterative, altered, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, better, bland, brittle, capricious, chancy,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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