mutation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MUTA'TION, noun [Latin mutatio.] The act or process of changing. 1. Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.
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