a. [f. VACILLATE v.]
1. Marked by vacillation.
a. 1734. North, Examen, I. i. (1740), 25. If ever such vacillatory Accounts of Affairs of State, Kings and Monarchies, were given in Print before, I am mistaken.
a. 1835. McCulloch, Attributes (1837), xlii. III. 89. The details are far too numerous or obscure or vacillatory to admit of a place here.
1851. Hawthorne, Twice-told T., II. viii. 118. My political course, I must acknowledge, has been rather vacillatory.
2. Of persons: Tending to vacillate.
1854. Milman, Lat. Chr., VII. iii. III. 183. Hildebrand … for the first time … is vacillatory, hesitating, doubtful.
1876. Trollope, Amer. Senator, xxxiv. The Postmaster, half vacillatory, in his desire to oblige a neighbour produced the letter.
