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Definition of Accidence
1. Noun. The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words.
Definition of Accidence
1. n. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
Definition of Accidence
1. Noun. (context: grammar) The '''accidents''', of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. - John Milton ¹
2. Noun. A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art. ¹
3. Noun. The rudiments of any subject. - James Russell Lowell ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accidence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accidence
Literary usage of Accidence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"The proper department of accidence and syntax is to study psychical ... A strictly
scientific treatment of grammar would not deal with accidence and syntax ..."
2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"accidence and Syntax The fact that in language there is generally a divergence
between form and meaning—as when the idea of plurality is expressed by a ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"... accidence, but the contents are considerably altered. A proclamation of Edward
VI in 1548. continuing to enjoin the use of the book, has caused t he ..."
4. American Annals of Education (1829)
"Exercises in Writing French, adapted to the French accidence or Elements of French
... This volume consists of exercises adapted to the above accidence, ..."
5. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"... containing seventy pages of text, a vocabulary of twenty-three pages, and a
skeleton outline of Old English accidence in sixteen pages. ..."
6. A History of Southern Literature by Carl Holliday (1906)
"Having seen the need of good text-books in America, he had already written his
English Grammar, accidence to Mathematics, and accidence to Christianity, ..."
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