Accidence

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accidence \Ac"ci*dence\, n. [A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl.
     of accident. See {Accident}, 2.]
     1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of
        grammar. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. The rudiments of any subject. --Lowell.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  accidence
       n : the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
           [syn: {inflectional morphology}]