Middle English Dictionary Entry
accident adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | accident adj. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Non-essential, incidental; (b) out of the normal course of nature, pathological.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)103/19 : Gold, and siluer, and all swylk accident þinges of þe world, be dispysable to hym.
b
- c1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)23/15 : For and the hete euir growe and inflawme the body within bi surfete of ouyr stronge metis or drynkis, or bi any othir accident case.
- c1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)29/30 : In two thingis and maners deyeth a man, that on maner is naturalle, as age þat ouircometh man and distroyeth þe body; that othir is bi accident maner, as bi seeknes..or hurtyng of egge tole.