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change. God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. Milton.

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

A change; a vicissitude. Marryat.

Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude. [R.] These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. E. Darwin.

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.

e; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a…

A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude. Cowper.

ection, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide. At length his complaint took a favorable turn. Macaulay. The turns and varieties of all passions. Hooker. Too well the turns of mortal chance I know. Pope.

Subject to vicissitudes. Donne.

Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. Bacon.

A turn revolution; rotation; compass. According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel. Milton. A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels,…