accidence

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It was Belgian's worst rail accidence since 2001 when eight people were killed and 12 were injured in a head-on collision between commuter trains outside Brussels.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2010

Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

There are to be no lessons in grammar or accidence as such, nor of course any verse compositions except for older boys specialising in classics.

From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various

A certain taste for figures, coupled with a still stronger distaste for the Latin accidence, directed his inclination and his father's choice towards a mercantile career.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)