Accident

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- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun

English

Etymology

French accident, from Latin accidens, -dentis, present participle of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See cadence, case.

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Noun

Accident (plural Accidents)

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident
Quotations
- Of moving accidents by flood and field. - Shakespeare, Othello, I-iii
- Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. - Trench
(Grammar): A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
(Military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
(Heraldry): A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms
(Logic): A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute
(Logic): A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
Quotations
- This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. - J. P. Mahaffy
(Obsolete): Unusual appearance or effect - Chaucer
Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

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Parody

A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better. - 1904, The Foolish Dictionary

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