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▪ I. † ˈaccidence1 Obs.
[a. Fr. accidence, ad. L. accidentia n. chance; f. accident-em, pr. pple. of accid-ĕre to fall, happen: see -nce.]
Hap, mishap, chance; fortuitous circumstance.
1393Gower Conf. II. 153 And ofte of accidence..They ben corrupt by sondry way. 1513Douglas æneis x. Prol. 23 Thy maist supreme indiuisibil substance..Rengand eterne, ressauis na accidence. 1604Dekker King's Entert. Wks. 1873 I. 300 Summon each Sence To tell the cause of this strange accidence. 1811J. Pinkerton Petralogy Introd. 4 Petralogy..divided into twelve domains..six being distinguished by circumstances or accidences of various kinds.
▪ II. accidence2|ˈæksɪdəns|
[Apparently a corruption of accidents (accident n. 9), Fr. accidens, transl. L. accidentia pl. neut., but perhaps a direct formation on the latter treated as a n. fem. See quot. dated 1751.]
1. That part of Grammar which treats of the Accidents or inflections of words; a book of the rudiments of grammar.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) v. ix. 23 Dame Gramer..taught me ryght well Fyrst my Donet and then my accidence. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. i. 16, I pray you aske him some questions in his Accidence. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. (1627) iv. 40 Let us begin with the rudiments of the Grammar, I meane the Accedence. 1751Chambers Cycl., Accidence, Accidentia, a name chiefly used for a little book, containing the first elements, or rudiments of the Latin tongue. 1840De Quincey Style Wks. XI. 198 With two or three exceptions..we have never seen the writer..who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar.
2. Hence, by extension: The rudiments or first principles of any subject.
1562G. Leigh (title) The Accedence of Armorie. 1664Butler Hudibras ii. ii. 221 Their Gospel is an Accidence By which they construe Conscience. 1870Lowell Among my Books Ser. ii. (1873) 162 The poets who were just then learning the accidence of their art. |