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Accidence

//ˈæk.sɪ.dəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The inflection of words. countable, uncountable

    "To teach Schollars how to bee able to reade well, and write true Orthography, in a short space. 2. To make them ready in all points of Accedence and Grammar, to answere any necessary question therein."

  2. 2
    the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words wordnet
  3. 3
    The rudiments of any subject. countable, uncountable

    "When Franklin, playing with his kite in a thunderstorm, brought down sparks from the heavens, he was learning the accidence of that science of Electricity which has given us the Telegraph and Telephone […]"

  4. 4
    A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art. countable, uncountable

    "And forsomuch as this treateth of blazon of Armes, and of the worthie bearers of them […] I therefore, have named this, the Accedence of Armorie […]"

Etymology

* First attested in the late 14th century. * (grammar): First attested in the mid 15th century. * From Middle English accidence, accidens, from Latin accidentia (“accidental matters”), from accidēns, present participle of accidere (“to happen”)

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