The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vacillate \Vac"il*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vacillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vacillating.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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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.
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To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
Syn: See Fluctuate.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: vacillate)
Usage examples of "vacillated".
He vacillated between extreme cordiality when deferring to Zainal's knowledge of some matters and total dismissal of Zainal's opinions.
His behavior vacillated between an almost unbearable imperiousness when addressing his younger brother and sisters to adolescent sullenness when he gazed at the table where Fara sat with adult members of Council.
The plea and the desperation that was perceived in its voice reflected with elocuencia in their kiss, and obtained what the threats and the anger had not obtained: Julie vacillated, had the sensation of which what finished hearing certain era.
There she vacillated and for a moment it was petrified and uncomfortable reason why she finished doing.
No, he begins by the day in which you discovered that… He vacillated and he returned to make the question, treating to formulate it with more gentleness.
When Diego vacillated, obviously distressed, wanting to go, yet unwilling to leave his father, Aisling had volunteered to look after Francisco.
Persemid vacillated, hesitant to put them down but even more hesitant to accept a gift from someone she was mad at.
Raymond had evidently vacillated during his journey, and irresolution was marked in every gesture as we entered Perdita's cottage.
Yet when he returned thence, and first appeared in public life in England, her love did not purchase his, which then vacillated between Perdita and a crown.