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Definition of Accidences
1. accidence [n] - See also: accidence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accidences
Literary usage of Accidences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"These accidences being, so to speak, infinitely diversified, and independent of
any mode in the sense used in the former volume, and often even of ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1871)
"And now I would ask anyone to tell me what that being, substance, or bearer of
the qualities (accidences) is in- and-for-itself, or whether he has a single ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Cranmer by Thomas Cranmer, John Edmund Cox (1844)
"And as fond opinions as some philosophers had, yet was there none that so far
erred in reason to say, that accidences might stand without any substance; ..."
4. Petralogy. A Treatise on Rocks by John Pinkerton (1811)
"These accidences being, so to speak, diversified, and of any Mode the sense used
the former volume, and often even of Structures and Aspects, was necessary ..."
5. The Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Adolph Ernst Kroeger (1868)
"Originally there is only one substance, the Ego, In it are posited all possible
accidences, hence all possible realities. ..."
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