accidentary

English

Etymology

accident +‎ -ary

Adjective

accidentary (comparative more accidentary, superlative most accidentary)

(obsolete) Accidental; occurring by chance; occasional. [16th–18th c.]
(obsolete) Logically accidental; non-essential. [16th–18th c.]

Synonyms

(occurring by chance): causeless, incidental, unintentional; see also Thesaurus:accidental

References

John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “accidentary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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