acciaccatura (atchakkatora)

[It.; lit., the effect of crushing, single note it is indicated in the same manner as the short appoggiatura; before a note of a chord it is indicated by IMG:content-0129.png:[blocks in formation] a stroke drawn through the chord under the note to which it belongs. It is now used only in organ-music. (6) More frequently, a short appoggiatura. See appoggiatura. accidencel (ak'si-dens), n. [A mi pelling of accidents, pl., or an accom. of L. accident i a, neut. pl., as accidence2 of L. accident i a, fem. sing.: see accident, 6.] 1. That part of grammar which treats of the accidents or inflection of words; a small book containing the rud i ments of grammar. I... never yet did learn mine accidence. John Taylor (the Water-Poet), accidental We carried an accidence , or a grammar, for form. Lamb , Christ's Hospital. Hence-2. The rudiments of any subject. The poets who were just then learning the accidence of their art. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 162.