Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The section of morphology that deals with the inflections of words.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That part of grammar which treats of the accidents or inflection of words; a small book containing the rudiments of grammar.
- n. Hence The rudiments of any subject.
- n. A fortuitous circumstance; an accident.
Wiktionary
- n. grammar The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. - John Milton
- n. A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art.
- n. The rudiments of any subject. - James Russell Lowell
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
- n. The rudiments of any subject.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Late Latin accidentia, from Latin accidēns, accident-, accident; see accident. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“This word was to include the 'accidence' of language with the fewest possible words; algebra with the least possible arithmetic ...”
“As the career management team is fond of saying, no one gets into Ivey by accidence.”
“If the cause of suffering is accidence then the suffering itself is accidental: it could as readily have been bliss.”
“Or is the “statistic” to use your own term a matter of historical accidence?”
“Hold up a sec--I just want to be sure you think the absence of women from the lists of great 16th C. playwrights is "a matter of historical accidence" and not, like, a matter of deeply discriminatory policies.”
“I read it in Latin, and it says: the substances, that is human beings or cats are a composition of real components, but the accidence for example the colour white, though can be defined with genus and differentia, has only a mental composition.”
“Sanglier to say if he is instructed in the more mysterious and secret terms of the science, by which the more learned do emblematically, and as it were parabolically, express to each other what is conveyed to others in the ordinary language, taught in the very accidence as it were of”
“Since the accidence of birth occasions one the colour of one's skin, "inequality ... did not need to be analysed, it could be taken as a condition.”
“The salutation was addressed to the Captain, now emerging from the back parlour with a most transparent and utterly futile affectation of coming out by accidence.”
Lists
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axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
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These should be used more often
Beautiful words that I rarely see outside the dictionary
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