accidence

• From the Latin accidence, boys of the period, at schools of the type of that at Stratford, were led, through conversation books like the 'Sententiae Pueriles' and Lily's grammar, to the perusal of such authors as Seneca Terence, Cicero, Virgil, Plautus, Ovid, and Horace. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
• Each of these Roman subjects is like a language with a delicate accidence, which is always presenting the unwary with pitfalls into which they are sure to blunder unless they have a thorough mastery of it. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• 1. 15 The changes of accidence are less frequent than those of syntax, yet such occur. —  The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising
• That they represent the coarser side of the genius whose finer aspect is shown in the sweetest passages of the poem has never been disputed by any one capable of learning the rudiments or the accidence of literary criticism. —  The Age of Shakespeare
• I should catch myself learning the Latin accidence, or playing at marbles. —  The Caxtons — Complete

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