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   Vicissitude (?), n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude.  See Vicarious.]
   
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   1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
   
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   God made two great lights . . .
   
   To illuminate the earth and rule the day
   
   In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.
   
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   2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
   
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   3. (pl.) Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's ups and downs.
   
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   This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty. Macaulay.
   
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