ACCIDENCE

AC'CIDENCE, noun [See Accident.] A small book containing the rudiments of grammar.

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accidence. Accidence, n. a book of first rudiments

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Ac″ci‐dence (�), n. [[A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2.]] 1. 1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.
2. 2. The rudiments of any subject. Lowell.