Accidence

Some allusion was implicit, perhaps, to the first Cheever in America, Ezekiel, headmaster of the Boston Latin School from 1671 to 1708 and author of Accidence: A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue, the standard text in American schools for a century or more.

'Cheever: A Life' 2009

I had it explained to me using the terms Essence and Accidence: Essence is what an object IS.

Holy Week, Church gets mad at a chocolate Jesus while I have my Zombie Jesus film fest. Elizabeth McClung 2007

The other three — Angel of Accidence (1954), For Some Stringed Instrument (1957), and On Balance (1978) — are out of print.

Barely Sighted Lives Leithauser, Brad 1994

Account of his Accidence and Nomenclature, when I return.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1774 1963

"Will your Royal Highness be pleased to open Pulverulentus Siccus at the fourth page of his Grammatical garden or the Arbour of Accidence pleasantlie open'd to Tender Wits?"

Prince Caspian Lewis, C. S. 1951

Indeed, for ought I can understand, he never learned no further then his _Accidence_, as we may learn from his own Words in one of his Books.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

It is supposed that during this time he wrote his valuable little book called The Accidence.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

'Accidence of Armory,' p. 119, &c., having spoken of the Pegasus borne for the armes of this Society, thus goes on: 'After I had travelled through the East parts of the unknown world, to understand of deedes of armes, and so arriving in the fair river of Thames, I landed within half a league from the City of London, which was (as I conjecture) in

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

_Accidence_ is that which is _under a condition, sub-joined,

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

At p. 319., enumerating the contents of chap. vi., we have "The Questions of the Accidence, called the _Poasing_ of the English Parts;" and chap.ix. is "Of _Parsing_ and the kinds thereof, &c."

Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various