Definitions for: Accidence

[n] the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words

Webster (1913) Definition: Ac"ci*dence, n. [A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl.
of accident. See Accident, 2.]
1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of
grammar. --Milton.

2. The rudiments of any subject. --Lowell.

Synonyms: inflectional morphology

See Also: morphology