Meanings of accidence in English

I should catch myself learning the Latin accidence, or playing at marbles.

Don't tell me it was 'a accidence.'

But, for all that I am, and have done here, I need not have gone beyond my accidence.

Instead of aspiring to the mastery of accidence and syntax, he aimed rather at securing immunity from the rod.

I have not declined my pronouns since I left my accidence at the High School of Tours-nottill to-day.

It is a truism that 'Varsity athletes generally succeed in life, Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence.

She had worked even at the Latin accidence, fondly hoping that she might be capable of instructing him in that language.

Poor boy, the check to his studies disappointed him, and he spent every leisure moment over his Latin accidence or in reading.

Over against these there were two comprehensive vices, barbarism and solecism, the one being an offence against accidence, the other against syntax.

The publication of an Accidence at that period gives some countenance to this tradition.

Why, then some be of laughing] This is a quotation from the Accidence.

But whether Miss Sippett saw the Accidence or not she always behaved as if it wasn't there.

Latin Accidence and Primary Lesson-Book, containing a full Exhibition of the Forms of Words, and First Lessons in Reading.

"An Accidence: or, The Pathway to Experience," etc., London, 1626.

"But I do not know that I pronounce correctly, having got it from an accidence."

When Mamma saw the Accidence open on the drawing-room table she shut it and told you to put it in its proper place.