incidentaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˌɪnsᵻˈdɛntl/, U.S.

/ˌɪnsəˈdɛn(t)l/

Etymology: < incident n. + -al suffix¹. Compare modern French incidentel.

A. adj.

a. Occurring or liable to occur in fortuitous or subordinate conjunction with something else of which it forms no essential part; casual.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]

byc1050

casualc1374

fortuitc1374

fortunelc1374

fortunousc1374

causelessc1386

adventurousc1405

accidental1502

fortunable1509

happya1522

chanceable1549

occasional1569

accidentary1581

emergent1593

streave1598

contingent1604

happening1621

incidental1644

lucky1648

sporadical1654

temerarious1660

spontaneous1664

incidentarya1670

chance1676

antrin?1725

fortuitous1806

sporadic1821

windfall1845

chanced1853

blind1873

happenchance1905

happenstance1905

the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential

accidental1387

casual1398

incident1523

accidentary?1549

accessarya1555

chanceablea1557

accessory1563

circumstant1583

advenient1594

adventive1605

adventitial1607

circumstantial1608

contingent1628

adventious1633

incidental1644

accessional1646

contingential1647

non-essential1647

extra-essential1667

attachable1798

dividuous1816

inessential1832

peripheral1902

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Those incidentall discourses which we have wander'd into.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 161 With an incidental Account of the first Inducements that made the Privateers undertake the passage.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. Concl. 291 In Scripture, whether in incidental Passages, or in the general Scheme of it.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. ii. 19 A circumstance as incidental, and as unlike design, as any that can be imagined.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 14 The simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced.

1876 E. Mellor Priesthood viii. 371 There is scarcely any practice which is so corrupt as not to produce some incidental good.

b. Of a charge or expense: Such as is incurred (in the execution of some plan or purpose) apart from the primary disbursements.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > types of cost or expenditure

incident1652

incidental1740

sunk1771

sumptuary1796

indirect1903

oncost1908

overhead1909

all-up1942

pass-through1952

internalized1971

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 328 In the first six days of acting it, we paid all our constant, and incidental expence, and shar'd each of us a hundred pounds.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 224 For defraying the expences of the civil establishment of his Majesty's colony of West Florida, and other incidental expences attending the same.

1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 63 The house rent, and the incidental charges of a family.

1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming x. 104 These calls sufficed..for the nursery, and incidental expenses.

c. incidental images, incidental colours: such as are perceived by the eye as a consequence of visual impressions no longer present.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > (retained) visual image

spectrum1786

photogene1864

negative after-image1870

incidental images1876

optogram1878

1876 J. Bernstein Five Senses 117 These prolonged impressions of light are called incidental images.

1876 J. Bernstein Five Senses 120 The incidental colours..which are formed in the eye, are most interesting.

2. incidental to: liable to happen to; to which a thing is liable or exposed. incidental upon: following upon as an incident.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > liable to happen

probable?a1425

likely1437

casualc1440

incident1488

incidental to1616

liable1619

the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential > following upon as an incident

incidental upon1851

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective] > dependent or contingent > on something

contingent1613

pendulous1655

incidental upon1851

1616 Coryat in J. Taylor Wks. (1630) ii. 83 If I should happen to be destitute; a matter very incidentall to a poore Footman Pilgrim.

1665 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help 96 Those temptations that are incidental to a suffering state.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. x. 31 I who am no great Genius have a Weakness incidental to little ones.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 141 The hesitation incidental to the use of a foreign language.

1851 H. Spencer Social Statics 70 Others..may contend that..with the rightly constituted or moral man, correct conduct to others is merely incidental upon the fulfilment of his own nature.

1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 148 The dangers incidental to pigsticking.

a. Casually met with or encountered. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > coming or encountered by chance

incidental1856

chancing1889

1856 J. Cumming Script. Reading Deut. viii. 143 The green moss and incidental flowerets break out from the rifts and rents.

1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 122 The..braying of an incidental ass.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 142 A store of magical articulation with which he..promised himself to frighten any incidental Christian of his own years.

b. Given to relating casual incidents.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. v. 85 Says the incidental Jocelin.

†4. = incident adj.¹ 7. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > impinging

striking?1611

incident1668

impinginga1727

impingent1760

incidental1813

impacting1916

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things iv. Comment. xv The angle contained by the incidental ray.

B. n.

An incidental circumstance, event, charge, expense, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun]

thingeOE

to-tagc12..

estrec1300

casec1325

aboutstanding1340

circumstancec1380

termsa1382

conditionc1384

befalla1492

weather1603

attendant1607

belonginga1616

circumstantial1647

incident1649

incidence1670

incidental1707

attitude1744

circs1883

1707 Modest Enquiry in Sewall's Diary (1879) II. 73 The accidental occasions of hiring Transport Ships, together with the other Incidentals that must necessarily accrue.

1726 A. Pope Corr. 9 Aug. (1956) II. 386 Almost every body and every thing is a cause or object for humanity, even prosperity itself, and health itself, so many weak pitiful incidentals attend on them.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxviii. 673 We should find in others a large bill for incidentals.

Compounds

Special collocations.

incidental advertisement n. see quot.

ΚΠ

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 636/3 ‘Incidental’ advertisements, advertisements..which are printed in a separate gathering from the body of the book and sewn in at either the end or the beginning.

incidental music n. music played as an accompaniment or ‘background’ to a play or film, or to a radio or other performance or entertainment.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > background music

incidental music1864

score1927

background1928

1864 in H. J. Byron Orpheus & Eurydice 2 (heading) The incidental music selected and arranged by Mr. Frank Musgrave.

1928 Melody Maker Feb. 214 (advt.) Liber's incidental music.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 464/1 Incidental music to plays has always been an important side-line of the art and business of the composer.

incidental number n. a piece of incidental music; also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece

tinternel1573

aubade1678

nome1705

accompaniment1728

potboiler1783

raga1789

elegy1808

improvisation1824

pièce d'occasion1830

morceau de salon1854

tum-tum1859

murky1876

test-piece1876

invention1880

monodia1880

serenata1883

monody1887

dumka1895

incidental number1904

a cappella1905

folk-tune1907

realization1911

nosebleeder1921

show tune1927

sicilienne1927

estampie1937

ballad1944

Siciliana1947

hard rocker1957

rabble-rouser1958

display1959

mobile1961

soundscape1968

grower1973

lounge1978

1904 W. D. Adams Dict. Drama I. p. vi Musical Composers, the latter ranging from the writers of operas and operettas to the providers of ‘incidental numbers’ for plays.

1912 E. Wylie (title) Incidental numbers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	incidental
释义	incidentaladj.n. Brit. /ˌɪnsᵻˈdɛntl/, U.S. /ˌɪnsəˈdɛn(t)l/ Etymology: < incident n. + -al suffix¹. Compare modern French incidentel. A. adj. 1. a. Occurring or liable to occur in fortuitous or subordinate conjunction with something else of which it forms no essential part; casual. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] byc1050 casualc1374 fortuitc1374 fortunelc1374 fortunousc1374 causelessc1386 adventurousc1405 accidental1502 fortunable1509 happya1522 chanceable1549 occasional1569 accidentary1581 emergent1593 streave1598 contingent1604 happening1621 incidental1644 lucky1648 sporadical1654 temerarious1660 spontaneous1664 incidentarya1670 chance1676 antrin?1725 fortuitous1806 sporadic1821 windfall1845 chanced1853 blind1873 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential accidental1387 casual1398 incident1523 accidentary?1549 accessarya1555 chanceablea1557 accessory1563 circumstant1583 advenient1594 adventive1605 adventitial1607 circumstantial1608 contingent1628 adventious1633 incidental1644 accessional1646 contingential1647 non-essential1647 extra-essential1667 attachable1798 dividuous1816 inessential1832 peripheral1902 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Those incidentall discourses which we have wander'd into. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 161 With an incidental Account of the first Inducements that made the Privateers undertake the passage. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. Concl. 291 In Scripture, whether in incidental Passages, or in the general Scheme of it. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. ii. 19 A circumstance as incidental, and as unlike design, as any that can be imagined. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 14 The simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood viii. 371 There is scarcely any practice which is so corrupt as not to produce some incidental good. b. Of a charge or expense: Such as is incurred (in the execution of some plan or purpose) apart from the primary disbursements. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > types of cost or expenditure incident1652 incidental1740 sunk1771 sumptuary1796 indirect1903 oncost1908 overhead1909 all-up1942 pass-through1952 internalized1971 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 328 In the first six days of acting it, we paid all our constant, and incidental expence, and shar'd each of us a hundred pounds. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 224 For defraying the expences of the civil establishment of his Majesty's colony of West Florida, and other incidental expences attending the same. 1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 63 The house rent, and the incidental charges of a family. 1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming x. 104 These calls sufficed..for the nursery, and incidental expenses. c. incidental images, incidental colours: such as are perceived by the eye as a consequence of visual impressions no longer present. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > (retained) visual image spectrum1786 photogene1864 negative after-image1870 incidental images1876 optogram1878 1876 J. Bernstein Five Senses 117 These prolonged impressions of light are called incidental images. 1876 J. Bernstein Five Senses 120 The incidental colours..which are formed in the eye, are most interesting. 2. incidental to: liable to happen to; to which a thing is liable or exposed. incidental upon: following upon as an incident. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > liable to happen probable?a1425 likely1437 casualc1440 incident1488 incidental to1616 liable1619 the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential > following upon as an incident incidental upon1851 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective] > dependent or contingent > on something contingent1613 pendulous1655 incidental upon1851 1616 Coryat in J. Taylor Wks. (1630) ii. 83 If I should happen to be destitute; a matter very incidentall to a poore Footman Pilgrim. 1665 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help 96 Those temptations that are incidental to a suffering state. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. x. 31 I who am no great Genius have a Weakness incidental to little ones. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 141 The hesitation incidental to the use of a foreign language. 1851 H. Spencer Social Statics 70 Others..may contend that..with the rightly constituted or moral man, correct conduct to others is merely incidental upon the fulfilment of his own nature. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 148 The dangers incidental to pigsticking. 3. a. Casually met with or encountered. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > coming or encountered by chance incidental1856 chancing1889 1856 J. Cumming Script. Reading Deut. viii. 143 The green moss and incidental flowerets break out from the rifts and rents. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 122 The..braying of an incidental ass. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 142 A store of magical articulation with which he..promised himself to frighten any incidental Christian of his own years. b. Given to relating casual incidents.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. v. 85 Says the incidental Jocelin. †4. = incident adj.¹ 7. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > impinging striking?1611 incident1668 impinginga1727 impingent1760 incidental1813 impacting1916 1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things iv. Comment. xv The angle contained by the incidental ray. B. n. An incidental circumstance, event, charge, expense, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] thingeOE to-tagc12.. estrec1300 casec1325 aboutstanding1340 circumstancec1380 termsa1382 conditionc1384 befalla1492 weather1603 attendant1607 belonginga1616 circumstantial1647 incident1649 incidence1670 incidental1707 attitude1744 circs1883 1707 Modest Enquiry in Sewall's Diary (1879) II. 73 The accidental occasions of hiring Transport Ships, together with the other Incidentals that must necessarily accrue. 1726 A. Pope Corr. 9 Aug. (1956) II. 386 Almost every body and every thing is a cause or object for humanity, even prosperity itself, and health itself, so many weak pitiful incidentals attend on them. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxviii. 673 We should find in others a large bill for incidentals. Compounds Special collocations. incidental advertisement n. see quot. ΚΠ 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 636/3 ‘Incidental’ advertisements, advertisements..which are printed in a separate gathering from the body of the book and sewn in at either the end or the beginning. incidental music n. music played as an accompaniment or ‘background’ to a play or film, or to a radio or other performance or entertainment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > background music incidental music1864 score1927 background1928 1864 in H. J. Byron Orpheus & Eurydice 2 (heading) The incidental music selected and arranged by Mr. Frank Musgrave. 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 214 (advt.) Liber's incidental music. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 464/1 Incidental music to plays has always been an important side-line of the art and business of the composer. incidental number n. a piece of incidental music; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece tinternel1573 aubade1678 nome1705 accompaniment1728 potboiler1783 raga1789 elegy1808 improvisation1824 pièce d'occasion1830 morceau de salon1854 tum-tum1859 murky1876 test-piece1876 invention1880 monodia1880 serenata1883 monody1887 dumka1895 incidental number1904 a cappella1905 folk-tune1907 realization1911 nosebleeder1921 show tune1927 sicilienne1927 estampie1937 ballad1944 Siciliana1947 hard rocker1957 rabble-rouser1958 display1959 mobile1961 soundscape1968 grower1973 lounge1978 1904 W. D. Adams Dict. Drama I. p. vi Musical Composers, the latter ranging from the writers of operas and operettas to the providers of ‘incidental numbers’ for plays. 1912 E. Wylie (title) Incidental numbers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1616
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