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accidentally, adv.|æksɪˈdɛntəlɪ|
[f. accidental + -ly2.]
Sense 2 was the earlier in use; see accident n.
1. a. In an accidental manner; by accident, by chance, unintentionally, casually.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 143 A Letter..which accidentally..hath miscarried. 1607― Cor. iv. iii. 40 I am most fortunate, thus accidentally to encounter you. 1639Fuller Holy War (1840) ii. xxi. 77 Being accidentally poisoned by one of his own arrows. 1771Junius Lett. xlvi. 246 A great authority..I accidentally met with this morning. 1823Lamb Elia. Ser. ii. xxiii. 393 (1865) Accidentally their acquaintance has proved pernicious to me.
b. joc. phr., accidentally on purpose: with the appearance of an accident although actually on purpose or by pre-arrangement.
1862Lady Morgan Mem. x. 91 Dermody neglected the order—perhaps ‘accidentally on purpose’. 1916R. Frost Let. 14 Nov. (1964) 45 My not meeting De la Mare in England was rather accidentally on purpose. 1946R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby 137 The other one chiming in all wrong every time accidentally on purpose to spoil the effect.
†2. Non-essentially, incidentally, as a secondary or subsidiary effect. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. (1495) xvii. i. 593 Drye essencialli and moyst accidentally. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. of Cyrurg. Suppose that holly they do nat contrary, neuerthelesse they contrary accydentally. 1651Hobbes Gov. & Soc. iii. §21. 50 Every man is presumed to seek what is good for himselfe naturally, and what is just, only for Peaces sake, and accidentally. 1781Gibbon Decl. & Fall. III. 139 The invasion of the Goths..contributed, at least accidentally, to extirpate the last remains of Paganism. |