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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1615
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Accidence, n. Also: accedens. [ME. accidence (1390), L. accidentia.] Accidental occurrence, quality, etc.; a sum or sums accidentally accruing. 1456 Hay II. 136/34.
The quhilkis [qualiteis] cummys sumquhile for accidence 1490 Irland Mir. MS. 245.
The blissit body of Jhesu … vnder the sammyn figur, accedens, and similitude 1491 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. 255.
[Absent] chaplannis … salbe secludit fra ale commonys and accidence for ane ȝere 1540 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 172.
xls … of the fyrst accedens that cumis in the den of gildis handis a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xxvii. 7.
Quhone darthe cummis or pestilence, We say it is be accidence 1615 Highland P. III. 255.
Ȝour Lo. accepting so weill of my last newis … hes imboldonit mee … to foirsee ȝour Lo. of this lait accidence
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