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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mercurial /məːˈkjʊərɪəl/

▶adjective

1 subject to sudden changes of mood or mind.

2 of or containing the element mercury.

3 (Mercurial) of the planet Mercury.

▶noun a drug containing mercury.

– derivatives
mercuriality /-ˈalɪti/ noun,
mercurially adverb.

– origin ME: from L. mercurialis ‘relating to the god Mercury’, from Mercurius ‘Mercury’.

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