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noun

Accidence n.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

The rudiments of any subject.

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Etymology of 'Accidence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accidence" Quotes from Famous Books

... "accidence moving" our Fellow Discoursed as they sat by the murmuring stream, Till, as young Desdemona was charmed by Othello, She listened, as one who is ...

— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling

... sense! was the like ever heard?—to put yourself to school among pedants and Jacobites, when you might be pushing your fortune in the world! Why not go to Westminster or Eton at once, man, and take to Lilly's Grammar and Accidence, and to the birch, too, ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... weaknesses; above all he finds that self-denial has its reward in perfect health; that the thistle pain, too, has its flower. It is a truism that 'Varsity athletes generally succeed in life, Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence. ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... this? You have taken the matter too hastily. There was no thought that ye should part till you had some purpose in view. Nay, we should be fain for Ambrose to bide on here, so he would leave his portion for me to deal with, and teach little Will his primer and accidence. You are a quiet lad, Ambrose, and can rule ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... is a double entendre "and the infirm letters (viz. a, w and y) not subject to accidence, left him." The three make up the ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton