accidence

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The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2017

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

From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May

During the year 1625 he published "An Accidence, or the Pathway to Experience necessary for all young Seamen," and in 1627 "A Sea Grammar."

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

He also appears to have been at George Alley Gate, St. Botolph's parish, where he printed, but without date, Stanbridge's Accidence.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

The earliest work printed wholly in this character in England, is said to have been Lily's or Paul's Accidence, printed by Richard Pinson, 1518.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold