Ca*price" (?), n. [F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i.]
1.
An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
"
Caprices of appetite."
W. Irving.
2. Mus.
See Capriccio.
Syn. -- Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness.
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