accidentality

[From accidental, adj.] The quality of being accidental. to take from history its accidentality, and from science its fatalism."-Cole ridge Table Talk. ăc-çi-děnt-al-lý, adv. [From accidental, adj.] 1. In an unforeseen way, without obvious cause, casually, fortuitously, or what is so called, though really regulated by law. it [the Great Seal] was accidentally caught by a a fishing net and dragged up."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. ix. 2. Not e entially. "Proprium and accidens, on the other hand, form no part of the e ence, but are are predicated of the species only accidentally." -J. S. Mill : Logic. ăc-ci-děnt'-al-ne , s. [ACCIDENTAL, a.] The quality of being accidental, fortuitous IMG:content-0079.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Some are supernatural, others naturall, and others accidentarie." - Time's Store - House, 760, 2.