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
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
They learn deep lessons almost unconsciously; to conquer their desires, to make light of toil and pain and discomfort; the true humanist is well aware that Spartan discipline is incomparably superior to Greek accidence.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
I have not declined my pronouns since I left my accidence at the High School of Tours—not till to-day.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
