• (n.) Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. • (n.) Irregular change; revolution; mutation. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/vicissitude/
Vi·cis'si·tude noun [ Latin vicissitudo , from vicis change, turn: confer French vicissitude . See Vicarious .] 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. « God made two great lights . . . To illum... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/23
[n] - a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something 2. [n] - mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=vicissitude
vicissitude, vicissitudes 1. A change or variation. 2. The quality of being changeable; mutability. 3. One of the abrupt or unexpected changes or shifts often met with in one's life, activities, or surroundings. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2297/