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accidence

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ac=ci=dence

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun accidence has 1 sense

accidence(n = noun.cognition) inflectional morphology - the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words; Array

is a kind of morphology

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CIDE DICTIONARY

accidence, n. [A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2.].

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton. [1913 Webster]
The rudiments of any subject. Lowell. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

accidence, n. the part of grammar that deals with the variable parts or inflections of words.

Etymology

med.L sense of L accidentia (transl. Gk parepomena) neut. pl. of accidens (as ACCIDENT)

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accidence

Grammar

N grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation, parts of speech, jussive, syllabication, inflection, case, declension, conjugation, us et norma loquendi, Lindley Murray, correct style, philology.

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