Accidence

Roman subjects is like a language with a delicate accidence, which is always presenting the unwary with pitfalls into which they are sure to blunder unless they have a thorough mastery of it. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

This word was to include the 'accidence' of language with the fewest possible words; algebra with the least possible arithmetic ... ❋ Giberne Sieveking (N/A)

As the career management team is fond of saying, no one gets into Ivey by accidence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the cause of suffering is accidence then the suffering itself is accidental: it could as readily have been bliss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I read it in Latin, and it says: the substances, that is human beings or cats are a composition of real components, but the accidence for example the colour white, though can be defined with genus and differentia, has only a mental composition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or is the “statistic” to use your own term a matter of historical accidence? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hold up a sec--I just want to be sure you think the absence of women from the lists of great 16th C. playwrights is "a matter of historical accidence" and not, like, a matter of deeply discriminatory policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sanglier to say if he is instructed in the more mysterious and secret terms of the science, by which the more learned do emblematically, and as it were parabolically, express to each other what is conveyed to others in the ordinary language, taught in the very accidence as it were of ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since the accidence of birth occasions one the colour of one's skin, "inequality ... did not need to be analysed, it could be taken as a condition." ❋ Unknown (2007)

The salutation was addressed to the Captain, now emerging from the back parlour with a most transparent and utterly futile affectation of coming out by accidence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At communion, the catholics believe, the bread and wine retains the accidence of bread and wine, but the essence is transsubstantiated into flesh and blood of a certain, well known jewish man. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2007)

I don't think it's an accidence that labs at poorer institutions seem to be over-represented on the Web. ❋ Josh (2007)

She had worked even at the Latin accidence, fondly hoping that she might be capable of instructing him in that language. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I pray you, ask him some questions in his accidence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Here stuck the great stupid boys, who, for the life of them, could never master the accidence — the objects alternately of mirth and terror to the youngsters, who were daily taking them up and laughing at them in lesson, and getting kicked by them for so doing in play-hours. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

The accidence expounded by Dionysius Thrax is found practically unchanged in Apollonius Dyscolus, and was taken over almost completely by such Roman grammarians as Donatus and Priscianus. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)

"[I'm a] [accident] and i'm [proud]" ❋ Stay In Drugs, Dont Do School. (2019)

Everything [changed] [after the] [accident] ❋ Flanos, Destroyer Of Worlds (2020)

[I think] I [spelled] [accidentally] spelled accidentally as accidently ❋ Billiam Beaver (2017)

[Cleetus]: "Hey [Maude], this ['ere] critter dang near made me spill mah beer on accident." ❋ Riley Krushane (2006)

Billy: "Teacher! Clyde shit himself on the swing!" Teacher: "No, no, Billy! Clyde had an ['accident']..." Billy: "[Nawp]. He shat himself and flew right off that [sumbitch]!" ❋ Drew D'Jew (2004)

"Mary, did you see those two cars [accidenting]?" "Yes, I saw the [whole thing]!" or "Wonderful, the baby is [Accidenting] in his [brand new] pants!" ❋ TableFor6Please0814 (2016)

['accident'] Person 1: "I saw your hand down there and heard some noise, [I call bullshit]!" Person 666: "It was merely an accident." Person 1: "Oh, [spare me] your rhetoric, you know that your hand and arm didn't just magically spasm near my girlfriend's ass." ❋ (9+10)x2 = 42 | 42x10 = 420 (2016)

"I thought that we were just going to talk business when I [agreed] to meet [Paul] for coffee, but then he put his hand on my arm and told [me I] was beautiful and I realised that I was on an accidate.' ❋ Hannahj (2006)

[Kids] in the [front seat] cause accidents. Accidents [in the back] see cause [kids]. ❋ Chuffy (2003)

[You are a] [accident] ❋ If Fat Mama (2017)