accidence
/ˈæk.sɪ.dəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "1669, John Milton, Accedence Commenc’t Grammar (title of a Latin grammar)"
- "1871, Review of An Elementary Greek Grammar by William W. Goodwin, North American Review, Volume 112, No. 231, 1 April, 1871, p. 427, Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well […]"
- ""Room. Rooms. It same thing." Jalii was above accidence."
- "All major sectors of English grammar, including syntax and accidence, are put through their paces in a systematic way[.]"
- "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 […]"
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”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱh₂d-, accidence, accidentia