English

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.
• Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words. Granada Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0246111518.