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coincidental, a.|kəʊɪnsɪˈdɛntəl|
[f. prec. + -al1, after incidental.]
1. Characterized by, or of the nature of coincidence; loosely = coincident.
c1800K. White Rem. (1837) 384 Arguing upon probabilities, with some slight coincidental corroborations. 1845Illust. Lond. News 26 July 59 This coincidental misfortune. 1879Tinsley's Mag. XXIV. 147 We have complementary rather than coincidental tastes.
2. Of the nature of a coincidence (sense 4).
1884R. H. Busk in N. & Q. Ser. vi. X. 358, I have myself..noted a considerable number of very striking coincidental dreams. 1886Pall Mall G. 28 Dec. 4/1 Supposing the apparition itself to have been but a coincidental effect of the other brother's imagination. |