(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:36:34

Ac"ci*dence (#), n. [A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2.]

1.

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

Milton.

2.

The rudiments of any subject.

Lowell.

 

© Webster 1913.

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