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accident
(mass) | accident
- nešťastie |
accident
(encz) | accident,bouračka n: Zdeněk Brož |
accident
(encz) | accident,havárie |
accident
(encz) | accident,náhoda Michal Kolesa (michal.kolesa@quick.cz) |
accident
(encz) | accident,nehoda n: |
accident
(encz) | accident,neštěstí |
accident
(encz) | accident,úrazový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Accident
(gcide) | Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens,
-dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall.
See Cadence, Case.]
1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without
one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and
unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an
undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or
unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by
an accident.
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Of moving accidents by flood and field. --Shak.
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Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
It is the very place God meant for thee. --Trench.
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2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential
to it, as gender, number, case.
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3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in
a coat of arms.
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4. (Log.)
(a) A property or quality of a thing which is not
essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
(b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the
substance, as sweetness, softness.
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5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental
or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
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This accident, as I call it, of Athens being
situated some miles from the sea. --J. P.
Mahaffy.
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6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such
unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as
is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
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accident
(wn) | accident
n 1: an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or
injury
2: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an
apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident";
"the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an
accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity,
chance event] |
accident
(devil) | ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws.
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ACCIDENT
(bouvier) | ACCIDENT, practice. This term in chancery jurisprudence, signifies such
unforeseen events, misfortunes, losses, acts or omissions, as are not the
result of any negligence or misconduct in the party. Francis' Max. M. 120,
p. 87; 1 Story on Eq. Sec. 78.
Jeremy defines it as used in courts of equity, to be "an occurrence in
relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the
same was entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to one of them
over the other in a court of law." Jer. on Eq. 358. This definition is
objected to, because as accident may arise in relation to other things
besides contracts, it is inaccurate in confining accidents to contracts;
besides, it does not exclude cases of unanticipated occurrences, resulting
from the negligence or misconduct of the party seeking relief. 1 Story on
Eq. Sec. 78, note 1.
2. In general, courts of equity will relieve a party who cannot obtain
justice in consequence of an accident, which will justify the interposition
of a court of equity. The jurisdiction being concurrent, will be maintained
only, first, when a court of law cannot grant suitable relief; and,
secondly, when the party has a conscientious title to relief.
3. Many accidents are redressed in a court of law; as loss of deeds,
mistakes in receipts and accounts, wrong payments, death, which makes it
impossible to perform a condition literally, and a multitude of other
contingencies; and many cannot be redressed even in a court of equity; is if
by accident a recovery is ill suffered, a contingent remainder destroyed, or
a power of leasing omitted in a family settlement. 3 Bl. Comm. 431. Vide,
generally, Com. Dig. Chancery, 3 F 8; 1 Fonb. Eq. B. 1, c. 3, s. 7; Coop.
Eq. Pl. 129; 1 Chit. Pr. 408; Harr. Ch. Index, h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.;
Wheat. Dig. 48; Mitf. Pl. Index, h.t.; 1 Madd. Ch. Pr. 23; 10 Mod. R. 1, 3;
3 Chit. Bl. Com. 426, n.
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accident
(mass) | accident
- nešťastie |
accident
(encz) | accident,bouračka n: Zdeněk Brožaccident,havárie accident,náhoda Michal Kolesa (michal.kolesa@quick.cz)accident,nehoda n: accident,neštěstí accident,úrazový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
accident insurance
(encz) | accident insurance,havarijní pojištění n: |
accident-prone
(encz) | accident-prone,smolařský adj: Jaroslav Šedivý |
accidental
(encz) | accidental,nahodilý accidental,náhodný accidental,neúmyslný adj: Zdeněk Brožaccidental,nezaviněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
accidental colors
(encz) | accidental colors,vedlejší barvy |
accidental death
(encz) | accidental death,smrtelný úraz |
accidental injury
(encz) | accidental injury,zranění při úrazu |
accidental water quality deterioration
(encz) | accidental water quality deterioration,havarijní zhoršení jakosti
vody [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
accidentally
(encz) | accidentally,nahodile adv: accidentally,náhodou adv: mikosoftaccidentally,nechtěně adv: mikosoft |
accidents
(encz) | accidents,nehody |
additional accident benefit
(encz) | additional accident benefit,připojištění [fin.] |
antiaccidental measure
(encz) | antiaccidental measure,protihavarijní opatření [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
by accident
(encz) | by accident,náhodou Rostislav Svoboda |
cerebrovascular accident
(encz) | cerebrovascular accident, n: |
combined accident reduction effort
(encz) | Combined Accident Reduction Effort,název programu pro snížení
nehodovosti na amerických silnicích Jiří Šmoldas |
fatal accident
(encz) | fatal accident, n: |
inevitable accident
(encz) | inevitable accident, n: |
meet with an accident
(encz) | meet with an accident,utrpět nehodu |
Accident insurance
(gcide) | Insurance \In*sur"ance\, n. [From Insure.]
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1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage
by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a
stipulated consideration, called premium, one party
undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss
by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.
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Note: The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is
termed the insurer; the danger against which he
undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the
insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the
premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form,
the policy. --Johnson's Cyc.
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2. The premium paid for insuring property or life.
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3. The sum for which life or property is insured.
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4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.]
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The most acceptable insurance of the divine
protection. --Mickle.
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5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution;
as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against
injury.
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Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by
reason of accident to the person.
Endowment insurance or Endowment assurance, a combination
of life insurance and investment such that if the person
upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain
specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if
he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also
called whole life insurance.
Fire insurance. See under Fire.
Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance.
Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business
it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.
Insurance policy, a certificate of insurance; the document
containing the contract made by an insurance company with
a person whose property or life is insured.
Life insurance. See under Life.
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Accidental
(gcide) | Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier
accidental.]
1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not
according to the usual course of things; casual;
fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
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2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are
accidental to a play.
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Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more
tones foreign to their proper harmony.
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the
hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for
complementary colors. They are purely subjective
sensations of color which often result from the
contemplation of actually colored bodies.
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line,
drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts
the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from
the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn
from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets
this plane.
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of
light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of
the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of
trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning
bodies. --Fairholt.
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Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional;
adventitious.
Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous,
Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when
it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular
course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an
accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental
when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of
things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part
thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental
evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as
casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by
mere chance, without being prearranged or
premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a
casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is
attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to
what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition
to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse
of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such
that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen,
but is dependent for its existence on something else;
as, the time of my coming will be contingent on
intelligence yet to be received.
[1913 Webster]Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, n.
1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential;
anything happening accidentally.
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He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should
sink with the substance of the accusation. --Fuller.
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2. pl. (Paint.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous
rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand
forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into
a deep shadow.
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3. (Mus.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the
commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but
before a particular note.
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Accidental chords
(gcide) | Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier
accidental.]
1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not
according to the usual course of things; casual;
fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
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2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are
accidental to a play.
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Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more
tones foreign to their proper harmony.
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the
hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for
complementary colors. They are purely subjective
sensations of color which often result from the
contemplation of actually colored bodies.
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line,
drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts
the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from
the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn
from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets
this plane.
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of
light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of
the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of
trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning
bodies. --Fairholt.
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Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional;
adventitious.
Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous,
Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when
it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular
course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an
accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental
when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of
things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part
thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental
evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as
casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by
mere chance, without being prearranged or
premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a
casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is
attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to
what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition
to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse
of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such
that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen,
but is dependent for its existence on something else;
as, the time of my coming will be contingent on
intelligence yet to be received.
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Accidental color
(gcide) | Color \Col"or\ (k[u^]l"[~e]r), n. [Written also colour.] [OF.
color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to
celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See
Helmet.]
1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye,
by which individual and specific differences in the hues
and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay
colors; sad colors, etc.
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Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function
of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which
rays of light produce different effects according to
the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a
certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter
waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White,
or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths
so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the
color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or
reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which
fall upon them.
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2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
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3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and
spirits; ruddy complexion.
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Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak.
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4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as,
oil colors or water colors.
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5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything;
semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
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They had let down the boat into the sea, under color
as though they would have cast anchors out of the
foreship. --Acts xxvii.
30.
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That he should die is worthy policy;
But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak.
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6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
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Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this
color. --Shak.
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7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol
(usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship
or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the
cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
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In the United States each regiment of infantry and
artillery has two colors, one national and one
regimental. --Farrow.
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8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in
trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by
stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from
the jury to the court. --Blackstone.
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Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading,
and implied when it is implied in the pleading.
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Body color. See under Body.
Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish
or recognize colors. See Daltonism.
Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each
other that when blended together they produce white light;
-- so called because each color makes up to the other what
it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors,
when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the
primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.
Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race;
-- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro
blood, pure or mixed.
Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the
prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, --
red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes
called fundamental colors.
Subjective color or Accidental color, a false or spurious
color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of
the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual
change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white,
and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to
revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel
appear to the eye of different shades of color varying
with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors,
under Accidental.
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Accidental colors
(gcide) | Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier
accidental.]
1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not
according to the usual course of things; casual;
fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
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2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are
accidental to a play.
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Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more
tones foreign to their proper harmony.
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the
hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for
complementary colors. They are purely subjective
sensations of color which often result from the
contemplation of actually colored bodies.
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line,
drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts
the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from
the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn
from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets
this plane.
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of
light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of
the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of
trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning
bodies. --Fairholt.
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Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional;
adventitious.
Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous,
Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when
it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular
course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an
accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental
when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of
things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part
thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental
evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as
casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by
mere chance, without being prearranged or
premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a
casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is
attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to
what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition
to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse
of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such
that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen,
but is dependent for its existence on something else;
as, the time of my coming will be contingent on
intelligence yet to be received.
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Accidental Common Vocal
(gcide) | Chord \Chord\ (k[^o]rd), n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a
gut, Gr. chordh`. In the sense of a string or small rope, in
general, it is written cord. See Cord.]
1. The string of a musical instrument. --Milton.
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2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed,
producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common
chord.
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3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of
a circle or curve.
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4. (Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
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5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually
horizontal, resisting compression or tension. --Waddell.
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Accidental, Common, & Vocal chords. See under
Accidental, Common, and Vocal.
Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch.
Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a
curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.
Scale of chords. See Scale.
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Accidental lights
(gcide) | Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier
accidental.]
1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not
according to the usual course of things; casual;
fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
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2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are
accidental to a play.
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Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more
tones foreign to their proper harmony.
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the
hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for
complementary colors. They are purely subjective
sensations of color which often result from the
contemplation of actually colored bodies.
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line,
drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts
the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from
the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn
from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets
this plane.
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of
light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of
the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of
trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning
bodies. --Fairholt.
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Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional;
adventitious.
Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous,
Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when
it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular
course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an
accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental
when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of
things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part
thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental
evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as
casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by
mere chance, without being prearranged or
premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a
casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is
attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to
what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition
to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse
of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such
that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen,
but is dependent for its existence on something else;
as, the time of my coming will be contingent on
intelligence yet to be received.
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Accidental point
(gcide) | Accidental \Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier
accidental.]
1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not
according to the usual course of things; casual;
fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
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2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are
accidental to a play.
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Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more
tones foreign to their proper harmony.
Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the
hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for
complementary colors. They are purely subjective
sensations of color which often result from the
contemplation of actually colored bodies.
Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line,
drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts
the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from
the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn
from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets
this plane.
Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of
light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of
the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of
trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning
bodies. --Fairholt.
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Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional;
adventitious.
Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous,
Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when
it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular
course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an
accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental
when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of
things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part
thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental
evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as
casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by
mere chance, without being prearranged or
premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a
casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is
attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to
what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition
to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse
of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such
that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen,
but is dependent for its existence on something else;
as, the time of my coming will be contingent on
intelligence yet to be received.
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Accidentalism
(gcide) | Accidentalism \Ac`ci*den"tal*ism\, n.
Accidental character or effect. --Ruskin.
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Accidentality
(gcide) | Accidentality \Ac`ci*den*tal"i*ty\, n.
The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.]
--Coleridge.
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Accidentally
(gcide) | Accidentally \Ac`ci*den"tal*ly\, adv.
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance;
unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
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Accidentalness
(gcide) | Accidentalness \Ac`ci*den"tal*ness\, n.
The quality of being accidental; casualness.
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The chapter of accidents
(gcide) | Chapter \Chap"ter\, n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L.
capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the
principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and
cf, Chapiter.]
1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty
chapters.
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2. (Eccl.)
(a) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other
clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or
collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided
over by the dean.
(b) A community of canons or canonesses.
(c) A bishop's council.
(d) A business meeting of any religious community.
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3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of
the Freemasons. --Robertson.
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4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
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5. A chapter house. [R.] --Burrill.
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6. A decretal epistle. --Ayliffe.
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7. A location or compartment.
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In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? --Shak.
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Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at
the head of a chapter, as a title.
Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp.
a cathedral chapter.
The chapter of accidents, chance. --Marryat.
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accident
(wn) | accident
n 1: an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or
injury
2: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an
apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident";
"the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an
accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity,
chance event] |
accident surgery
(wn) | accident surgery
n 1: the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair
of injuries and wounds arising from accidents [syn:
traumatology, accident surgery] |
accident-prone
(wn) | accident-prone
adj 1: having more than the average number of accidents |
accidental
(wn) | accidental
adj 1: happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ;
"with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the
table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
[syn: accidental, inadvertent]
n 1: a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or
natural although that is not part of the key signature |
accidental injury
(wn) | accidental injury
n 1: an accident that results in physical damage or hurt [syn:
injury, accidental injury] |
accidentally
(wn) | accidentally
adv 1: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn:
by chance, accidentally, circumstantially,
unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, {by
design}, deliberately, designedly, intentionally,
on purpose, purposely]
2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent
achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental
models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]
3: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him
unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally, accidentally]
[ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately,
designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely] |
cerebrovascular accident
(wn) | cerebrovascular accident
n 1: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture
or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the
brain [syn: stroke, apoplexy, {cerebrovascular
accident}, CVA] |
fatal accident
(wn) | fatal accident
n 1: an accident that causes someone to die [syn: {fatal
accident}, casualty] |
inevitable accident
(wn) | inevitable accident
n 1: a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the
expected course of events; "he discovered that his house
was not insured against acts of God" [syn: act of God,
force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident,
unavoidable casualty] |
accident
(devil) | ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws.
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ACCIDENT
(bouvier) | ACCIDENT, practice. This term in chancery jurisprudence, signifies such
unforeseen events, misfortunes, losses, acts or omissions, as are not the
result of any negligence or misconduct in the party. Francis' Max. M. 120,
p. 87; 1 Story on Eq. Sec. 78.
Jeremy defines it as used in courts of equity, to be "an occurrence in
relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the
same was entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to one of them
over the other in a court of law." Jer. on Eq. 358. This definition is
objected to, because as accident may arise in relation to other things
besides contracts, it is inaccurate in confining accidents to contracts;
besides, it does not exclude cases of unanticipated occurrences, resulting
from the negligence or misconduct of the party seeking relief. 1 Story on
Eq. Sec. 78, note 1.
2. In general, courts of equity will relieve a party who cannot obtain
justice in consequence of an accident, which will justify the interposition
of a court of equity. The jurisdiction being concurrent, will be maintained
only, first, when a court of law cannot grant suitable relief; and,
secondly, when the party has a conscientious title to relief.
3. Many accidents are redressed in a court of law; as loss of deeds,
mistakes in receipts and accounts, wrong payments, death, which makes it
impossible to perform a condition literally, and a multitude of other
contingencies; and many cannot be redressed even in a court of equity; is if
by accident a recovery is ill suffered, a contingent remainder destroyed, or
a power of leasing omitted in a family settlement. 3 Bl. Comm. 431. Vide,
generally, Com. Dig. Chancery, 3 F 8; 1 Fonb. Eq. B. 1, c. 3, s. 7; Coop.
Eq. Pl. 129; 1 Chit. Pr. 408; Harr. Ch. Index, h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.;
Wheat. Dig. 48; Mitf. Pl. Index, h.t.; 1 Madd. Ch. Pr. 23; 10 Mod. R. 1, 3;
3 Chit. Bl. Com. 426, n.
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FIRE ACCIDENTAL
(bouvier) | FIRE ACCIDENTAL. One which arises in consequence of some human agency,
without any intention, or which happens by some natural cause, without human
agency.
2. Whether a fire arises purely by accident, or from any other cause
when it becomes uncontrollable and dangerous to the public, a man may, in
general, justify the destruction of a house on fire for the protection of
the neighborhood, for the maxim salus populi est suprema lex, applies in
such case. 11 Co. 13; Jac. Inter. 122, max. 115. Vide Accident; Act of God,
and 3 Saund. 422 a, note 2; 3 Co. Litt. 57 a, n. 1; Ham. N. P. 171; 1
Cruise's Dig. 151, 2; 1 Vin. Ab. 215; 1 Rolle's Ab. 1; Bac. Ab. Action on
the case, F; 2 Lois des Batim. 124; Newl. on Contr. 323; 1 T. R. 310, 708;
Amb. 619; 6 T. R. 489.
3. When real estate is let, and the tenant covenants to pay the rent
during the term, unless there are proper exceptions to such covenants, and
the premises are afterwards destroyed by fire, during the term, the rent
must be paid, although there be no enjoyment; for the common rule prevails,
res perit domino. The tenant, by the accident, loses his term, the landlord,
the residence. Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 102.
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INEVITABLE ACCIDENT
(bouvier) | INEVITABLE ACCIDENT. A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with
fortuitous. event. (q.v.) 2 Sm. & Marsh. 572. In the common law commonly
called the ad of God. (q.v.) 2 Smed. & Marsh. Err. & App. 572.
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