VACILLATES

Verb

vacillates

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vacillate

Anagrams

• laticlaves

Source: Wiktionary


VACILLATE

Vac"il*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vacillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vacillating.] Etym: [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. vañc.]

1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.

2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

Syn.

– See Fluctuate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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