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.

Vac"il*la`ting (?), a. Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. —

Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

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