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Accident
AC'CIDENT, n. [L. accidens, falling, from ad and cado, to fall. See Case and Cadence. Class Gd.]
1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
2. That which takes place or begins to exist without an efficient intelligent cause and without design.
All of them, in his opinion, owe their being, to fate, accident, or the blind action of stupid matter.
3. In logic, a property, or quality of a being which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper. Also all qualities are called accidents, in opposition to substance, as sweetness, softness, and things not essential to a body, as clothes.
4. In grammar, something belonging to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, inflection.
5. In heraldry, a point or mark, not essential to a coat of arms.
accident appears in definitions for these words:
A Accidence Accident Accidental Adelite Adherent Adnata Adventitious Adventitiously Adventive Agnomination Casual Casually Casualness Casualty Chance Chanceable Chock Circumstance Circumstantially Circumstantiate Cognomination Contingency Contingent Contingently Dependence Designedly Dialect Dismal Encounter Fall Find Finder Form Fortuitous Fortuitously Fortuitousness Fortune Fossil Guess Hap Hap-hazard Haply Hazard Hit Imagination Impotent Incidence Incidental Incidentally Inefficacious Insaneness Intentional Intrinsic Liability Luck Melancholic Misadventure Misfortune Mishap Miss Nick Night-spell Non-complying Non-naturals Occasion Occasional Occurrence Oddness Overhear Overheard Porcellanite Precarious Predicable Prescience Presence Purely Quality Reunion Reunite Sad Smite Sorrowful Sound Species Sporadical Startle Substance Symptom Trade Traverse Undecayed Variety
A Accidence Accident Accidental Adelite Adherent Adnata Adventitious Adventitiously Adventive Agnomination Casual Casually Casualness Casualty Chance Chanceable Chock Circumstance Circumstantially Circumstantiate Cognomination Contingency Contingent Contingently Dependence Designedly Dialect Dismal Encounter Fall Find Finder Form Fortuitous Fortuitously Fortuitousness Fortune Fossil Guess Hap Hap-hazard Haply Hazard Hit Imagination Impotent Incidence Incidental Incidentally Inefficacious Insaneness Intentional Intrinsic Liability Luck Melancholic Misadventure Misfortune Mishap Miss Nick Night-spell Non-complying Non-naturals Occasion Occasional Occurrence Oddness Overhear Overheard Porcellanite Precarious Predicable Prescience Presence Purely Quality Reunion Reunite Sad Smite Sorrowful Sound Species Sporadical Startle Substance Symptom Trade Traverse Undecayed Variety
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