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单词 incidency
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incidencyn.

Etymology: See incidence n. and -ency suffix.
Obsolete.
1. An incidental occurrence or circumstance; an incident.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > incident
incident1412
incidence1423
incidencya1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 403 Declare What incidencie thou do'st ghesse of harme Is creeping toward me. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 171 We have no reason why we should..vouchsafe the honor of a solemn notice to any such little incidencies as these.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 42 But ordinarily, and out of these singular incidencies..his way of procedure..is to act according to the general and stated laws of motion.
2.
a. The quality of being liable to fall to.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > liability
incidency1613
liableness1645
incidence1652
liability1809
facility1875
1613 T. Adams White Deuil 53 First the difficulty, to beare the bagge, and not be couetous. Secondly the vsuall incidency of the bagge to the worst men.
a1683 B. Whichcote Several Disc. (1703) III. 426 Particular errours and misapprehensions in some things is an incidency to uprightness of heart.
b. (with plural) A thing incident or liable to befall or fall to.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > liability > thing liable to fall to
incidencya1662
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Angl. (1671) i. 53 If any other considerations of Profit, Preferment or Compliance, did prevail upon him..they may with charity be looked on as the common incidencies of Humane frailty.
3. Physics. = incidence n. 4.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > of (something moving in) a line
incidence1626
incidency1646
1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Rayes of incidency contract no warmth upon the Earth, unlesse reflected backe upon their originall Sun.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. 245 As a certain subtile matter in its direct incidency is light.
figurative.1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 187 He..receives a more vigorous joy from the reflexion than from the direct incidency of his happiness.
4. The falling of one line upon another, the meeting of lines.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun]
overcastinga1398
intersecation1412
intersection1559
interfering1562
decussation1656
transversion1656
intercision1726
incidency1789
meshing1955
1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 346 Four streets intersect each other at right angles..whose incidencies form a spacious parade.
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