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accidence - What does it mean?

Definition of 'accidence'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (grammar) The accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
  • :(John Milton)
  • A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art.
  • The rudiments of any subject.
  • * James Russell Lowell
  • Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well