accidental

• The matter was entirely accidental, and I regretted it very much. —  Jerry
• This similarity of effect is often accidental, and due to the fact that the materials of the houses and of the mesas on which they are built are identical. —  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
• He accounted for the delay as accidental, and not involving the integrity of his assurance that the evacuation would take place_, and that I should know whenever any change was made in the resolution in reference to Sumter or to Pickens. —  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
• In response to this we say that composition must needs be of three kinds: One form of composition is termed philosophically the accidental, another the involuntary, and a third the voluntary. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace
• It is probable that if any connection existed it was accidental, and the relationship acknowledged by either designing or ignorant persons, was consequent upon the distribution, and did not cause or precede it. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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