Ca*pri"cious (k&adot;*pr&ibreve;sh"ŭs),
a. [Cf. F.
capricieux, It. capriccioso.]
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet."
Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller.
A capricious partiality to the Romish practices.
Hallam.
Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable;
unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary.
-- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n.
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