a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Chameleon-like; given to change, inconstant.

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1821.  Shelley, Lett. Mr. & Mrs. Gisborne, 13 July. Poets—the best of them, are a very cameleonic race.

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1856.  New Orleans Daily Crescent, 20 June, 2/3. His [Buchanan’s] chameleonic career has destroyed all confidence in his firmness.

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1870.  Graphic, 17 Sept., 270/3. The Parisians … chameleonic as they may be—do not tire of their rulers in four days.

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