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   Accident , n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case.]
    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.
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   Of moving accidents by flood and field.
   Shak.
   
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   Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
   It is the very place God meant for thee.
   Trench.
   
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   (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
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   (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
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   (Log.) (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
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   Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
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   This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.
   J. P. Mahaffy.
   
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   Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   ☞ 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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