Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accidence
n 1: the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of
words [syn: {inflectional morphology}, {accidence}]