Accidence

[æksidәns]

Definition

(n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

(n.) The rudiments of any subject.

Typed by Carlyle

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Grammar, rudiments or elements of grammar.

Edited by Kitty

Definition

n. the part of grammar treating of the inflections of words (because these changes are 'accidentals' of words and not 'essentials').

Edited by Helen