incidentn.

Brit.

/ˈɪnsᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈɪnsədnt/

Forms: Also Middle English incedent, Middle English–1500s incydent.

Etymology: < French incident (13th cent.), substantive use of incident adjective; see incident adj.¹

a. Something that occurs casually in the course of, or in connection with, something else, of which it constitutes no essential part; an event of accessory or subordinate character.

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > incident

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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > non-essentialness > incident

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1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. xxxvii In Troye boke no more of hym I fynde..Fro henceforth I can no processe reade But incydentes that beare no substaunce.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xl. 126 Yf an incydent had not ben or this, he had ben farre in the countrey of Hungery.

1533 T. More Apol. xxvi, in Wks. 891/2 The touching of this matter is no part of my principall entent, but happeneth as an incident to fall in my waye.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxi. 63 This present argument, Is: to principall case, but an incident.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 220 Habitations of Defence against the Seasons and other Incidents.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Preserve Corn, by the Moisture of the Weather, want of turning, and some other Incidents, will grow musty.

1879 Athenæum 6 Sept. 305/1 Failures are inevitable incidents.

b. An occurrence or event, sometimes comparatively trivial in itself, which precipitates or could precipitate political unrest, open warfare, etc. Also, a particular episode (air-raid, skirmish, etc.) in war; an unpleasant or violent argument, a fracas.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > a particular episode in war

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society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension

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1913 Ann. Reg. 1912 i. 441 He had invariably done everything France wanted him to do, and, especially at the time of the Agadir incident, had rejected German..advances.

1920 W. S. Blunt My Diaries ii. v. 138 Bramley..had reported the incident in a serious light, and Cromer had taken it up seriously, seeing in it..a danger to the British occupation.

1920 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Aug. (1938) 313 Our communications are very bad, our defence positions all have both flanks in the air, and there seem to have been two incidents lately.

1930 Economist 30 Aug. 392/1 When some special ‘incident’ has occurred, a Mandatory Power frequently furnishes the Commission with additional information.

1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xiv. 245 There were very few ‘incidents’. I visited almost every district of Berlin,..and I saw no man beaten..but I came back..overwhelmed with shame that people could be proud of so much bullying.

1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. iv. 32 One impotent little man from Clapham, who was insolent to the Maharani, received for his pains a dismissal from the Civil Service for having made an ‘incident’.

1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. lv. 242 It was threatening to become an ‘incident’ which might unsettle the peace of India.

1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 296/1 Such incidents are bound to form an integral part of large-scale warfare under modern conditions.

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 40 There are no occasions, occurrences, or events in an airman's life. Anything that happens to him is an ‘incident’..why, nobody knows.

1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 113 They [sc. the Home Guard] had given valuable aid to the Civil Defence Services in dealing with air-raid incidents.

1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 15 The number of ‘incidents’ in the Canal Zone increased.

1959 R. Collier City that wouldn't Die xi. 211 A warden doesn't write off an incident until he has personally made certain there is no one else on the premises.

1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words i. 23 If a business man speaks of incidents when he means quarrels, he has been influenced by journalism.

1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul i. i. 23 The Governor didn't want any incidents.

a. An occurrence or event viewed as a separate circumstance.

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event

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?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 105 Þis and what incidentes [3rd & 4th letters unclear in MS] ye knowe I preie yow by wrytinge certifie me in all hast.

1631 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 7) III. 1026 But of these incidents and occurrents hereafter more.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 81 Rarities in Nature, and surprizing Incidents which Foreigners expect.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 154. ⁋11 The fortuitous collision of happy incidents.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. xi. 202 To relate incidents as they have really happened, is the work of the memory.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 131 Even the high-swelled hopes with which the late incident had filled him, began to quail.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 50 This book..shows a skill in selecting telling incidents.

†b. A matter, an affair. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair

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1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 21 After many wordes and causes leyd and after Innumerable incidentes and reasons alledged atte last they were al acorded.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 25. ⁋4 Upon such Incidents as we decide by Combat.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xlii. 443 (note) This parliament..passed some remarkable incidents.

3. In the arts:

a. A distinct piece of action in a play or poem; †in early use, an event subordinate to the main design (so French incident).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > other aspects or elements > [noun] > episode or particular action

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > situation in a play

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1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xxxvi No person, no incident..in the Play, but must be of use to carry on the main Design.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋3 The Plot and Incidents of the Play are laid with that Subtilty of Spirit.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Incident, in a Poem, is an Episode or particular Action, tack'd to the principal Action, or depending on it.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 350 A set-off against the pathetic incidents of the play.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 205 The plays of Euripides are more rich in stirring incidents than those of his predecessors.

b. A single feature in a picture; especially one that does not form part of the main design or scene. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > part of > specific

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1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 379 The Prospect from the Capucin's Garden, which for the Extent and Variety of pleasing Incidents is, I think, the most charming.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 86 Behind the ‘Sacrifice for the Friends’ of Giotto at Pisa, there is a sweet piece of rock incident.

†4.

a. Something liable to attach itself to or connect itself with another thing; an accessory circumstance. Const. to, unto (rarely into). Obsolete except as in 4b.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun]

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1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. iv. 35 There are two incidents into this practice which may render it not unwarrantable.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 95 in Justice Vindicated Treason does ever produce fatal and final destruction to the offender, and never attaineth to the desired end (two incidents inseparable thereunto).

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. ii. xi. 236 Virgil, from the various Incidents of this Season, gives many singular and notable Epithets thereto.

b. Law. A privilege, burden, custom, etc. commonly or invariably attaching to an office, estate, or the like.

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society > law > legal concepts > [noun] > aggregates of rights and duties > right or duty attaching to an office or estate

incidence1528

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1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 151 b Incident, a thing appertaining to or following another as a more worthy or principall..And of incidents some be separable, and some inseparable.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Advowzen Advowzen Appendant..depends upon a Mannor, as appurtenant to it, termed by Kitchin an Incident that may be separated from the Subject.

a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 301 Their dignities had ceased for some ages to be an incident of their tenures.

1817 Ld. Loughborough in Douglass' Rep. II. 727 A fine to be paid on the change of a tenant is almost a constant incident of a copyhold estate.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 39 Some of the ‘incidents’ of tenure by knight-service had their counterpart in tenure in socage.

†c. An incidental charge or expense. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > incidental or additional

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1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 87 (List Officers Excise) Accomptant for Imprest Money for paying of Incidents.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 518 If the salaries of officers, and other incidents, therefore, amount to more than ten per cent.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 38 An Estimate of the Expence..amounted to twenty thousand Pounds, and..we allowed the five hundred for Incidents.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations (also incidents).

incident book n. a book in which all relevant information is kept at an incident room.

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1971 ‘J. Fraser’ Death in Pheasant's Eye xxiii. 132 The Incidents Book was on Inspector Coates' table... The Incidents Book was the Bible of any murder investigation; every action was telephoned to the man who looked after the book.

incident office n. = incident room n.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations

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incident room1971

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1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame xviii. 154 Mr. Glover's incident office is in a red corrugated-iron hut.

incident post n. = incident room n.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations

incident post1967

incident room1971

incident office1972

1967 E. R. Baker & G. H. Wilkie Police Promotion Handbk. iv. xxiii. 302 It will be clear from the list of duties that the manning of an Incident Post at the scene of a major disaster will call for a sufficiency of staff.

incident room n. names for a centre set up by the police close to the scene of a crime, accident, or disaster, from which all operations are controlled and monitored.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations

incident post1967

incident room1971

incident office1972

1971 ‘J. Fraser’ Death in Pheasant's Eye xxiii. 132 Three night men on duty in the Incidents Room.

1973 Times 12 Mar. 1/5 The murder hunt is being led by Detective Superintendent Brian Weight, who set up an incident room at Aylesbury police station.

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incidentadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈɪnsᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈɪnsədnt/

Forms: Also 1500s incydent(e, insedent, insident.

Etymology: < French incident or < Latin incident-em , present participle of incidĕre to fall into or to, fall upon, happen to, etc., < in- (in- prefix³) + cadĕre to fall. The senses of the English word are derived < medieval Latin rather than from French.

I. Senses relating to incidental occurrence.

1. Liable or apt to befall or occur to; likely to happen; hence, naturally appertaining or attaching.

a. Const. to (†in, into), rarely on.

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > liable to happen

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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] > belonging or pertaining

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1488 Will of Walter Stalworth (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 145^v To socour his simple body as they think incident and conuenient to him.

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. xii. sig. g4^v Punyshment..is incydent to the repentaunce whiche taketh away y^e synne.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. viii. sig. G.iiii^v If we well considre these two thinges wel, temptacion & persecucyon, we maye finde y^t eyther of theym is incydent to y^e other.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxxvii. 771 A kind of corruption or maladie insident to the pine-tree.

1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes v. iv. sig. F^v Commonly we see it incident in artificers to be inamoured of their own workes.

1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 46 Which is not incident in this way of grafting.

1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 414 That the Time of the New Jerusalem is comprized in, or, at least, incident into, the Philadelphian Succession.

1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 104 Deliberation and After-thought are not incident to God.

1773 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic (1806) v. §3. 119 The fallacies incident to categorical syllogisms.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 359 The noise..incident on the striking of the tents and the breaking up of the little camp.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxvii. 43 A State Government is a natural growth, which prima facie possesses all the powers incident to any government whatever.

b. without construction.

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1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *ij Both the one and the other hath fractions incident.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lviii. 129 Baptisme is farre more necessarie then any such incident rite or solemnitie ordeined for the better administration thereof.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvi. 204 Æmulations..are incident among Military men.

1653 Woodall's Wks. Pref. 9 To instruct them in the uses and dangers incident by mistakes.

a1677 Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. verse 107, in Wks. (1872) VIII. 96 Those in the highest station have their incident cares and troubles.

1898 Daily News 23 July 5/3 The Puerto Rico expedition, and the incident aggressive steps taken in the campaign.

2. Law. Attaching itself, as a privilege, burden, or custom, to an office, position, etc.

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society > law > legal concepts > [adjective] > attaching to an office or estate

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1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 §2 Fees and annuyties incident to every or the same Offices.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 21^v It is called a rent seeke, bycause there is no distresse insedent nor belongyng to the same.

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. ix Fealte is incident to euery maner of seruyce.

1629 Vse of Law 41 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light To this Tenure by Knights Seruice in chiefe, was incident that the King should haue a certaine summe of money, called Aid.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xi. 176 Where rent is reserved, it is also incident..to the reversion.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iii. 135 Every freeholder holding lands within the manor had, as of right, common of pasturage on the wastes as incident to his lands.

†3. Relating or pertinent to. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective]

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1557 Ord. Hospitalls F iij The Books of this Howse, incident to the matter.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B2 Such necessary questions, as are incident to my purpose.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. ix. §1. 107 It is not my purpose..to pursue the Historie of the Persians..otherwise then as they shall bee incident to the affaires of Greece.

†4. Apt to fall into; liable to; subject to. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected

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1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. lx. 21 Men are not alwaies incident to losse When Fortune seemes their foward cause to crosse.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 18 A wicked and irreligious man is subject and incident to fall into many distresses and casualties.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 84 Ah! ingratefull Zabaim, King incident to all crimes!

1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 55 Spiritual Pride is an evil, the very best of Gods Children are incident unto.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. ix. 138 This state of mortality is incident to perpetual change and revolution.

1767 S. Pennington Lett. IV. 16 The little complaints they [children] are incident to.

a. Occurring or liable to occur by the way, or in the course of something else of which it forms no essential part; casual; = incidental adj. 1. Now rare or Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > casual or incidental

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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential

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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxix. 493 The duke of Lancaster was nat in the fauoure of the comen people, wherby dyuers incydents parels fell after in England.

1581 Confer. (1584) i. sig. F iv b By occasion incident there was talke of a text of Scripture.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 309 The incident Mistakes, which he has run into, have not fail'd to increase in Number.

1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 53 in Athenæ Britannicæ III That Doctrine, which those chance-Propositions or incident Expressions seem to insinuate.

†b. Of expenses or charges; = incidental adj. 1b.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > types of cost or expenditure

incident1652

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indirect1903

oncost1908

overhead1909

all-up1942

pass-through1952

internalized1971

1652 Act Commw. Sale Est. Ld. Dunbar, etc. The Commissioners shall and may allow all incident charges for the necessary carrying on of this service.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 230 With all the Charges incident.

1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 313 By this means the country loses..the sums of money which each man costs, besides many incident charges, such as horse hire.

1768 Woman of Honor III. 178 He put into my hand a bank note, more than sufficient to defray any incident charges.

6. Subordinate, subsidiary, accessory.

a. Anatomy. (See quot. 1855.)

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1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Incident Spinal Nerves..those of the spinal system of nerves which convey any impressions on, or irritation of the integuments, or mucous membranes, to the true spinal marrow.

†b. incident proposition n. a proposition inserted in a principal one, and introduced by a relative pronoun, as ‘bodies, which are transparent, have many pores’ (Watts); a subordinate relative clause.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > clause > other specific types of clause

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nominative absolute1843

that-clause1845

head clause1915

contact-clause1927

content clause1927

wh-clause1957

1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ii. 258 The additional Proposition is called an incident Proposition... The Truth or Falsehood of the whole complex Proposition is not to be judged by the Truth or Falsehood of the incident Proposition.

II. Senses relating to falling or striking.

7. Falling or striking upon or against; acting upon anything from without. esp. of light: Falling or striking upon a surface often in photographic contexts. Const. upon.

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the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > impinging

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1668 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 606 Looking-Glasses..are conspicuous only by the incident beams of the Sun.

1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. ii. 78 The Obliquity of the Incident Ray is great.

1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xv. 91 If the incident Body A, and the Body CDEF upon which it strikes, are void of all Elasticity [etc.].

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 58 Mirrors..adjusted not only to one another, but to the light incident upon each.

1855 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 3) 139 Transparent matter upon which light is incident.

1855 J. Edwards Art Landscape Paint. 37 Illuminated by light actually incident upon the picture.

1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. §169 That there may be continuous changes of structure in organisms, there must be continuous changes in the incident forces.

1951 G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-making (ed. 2) ii. 21 The makers of other meters have adopted the Incident-light principle and have provided modifying attachments for their instruments.

1952 J. F. Dunn Exposure Meters i. 22 The term ‘incident light’ is used instead of ‘illumination’ when we wish to consider only the strength of the light being received from the source irrespective of the angle of inclination of the surface receiving it.

1956 Nature 4 Feb. 231/1 Blocks of soil were..directly examined with the aid of the incident-light equipment of a Leitz ‘Ortholux’ microscope.

1962 M. L. Haselgrove Photographers' Dict. 130 Light falling on a surface is said to be incident on the surface. In most photographic writing this term used without qualification refers to the light incident on the subject to be photographed.

†8. Opposed to, running counter to. Obsolete. rare. [Compare Latin incidĕre to fall upon, attack, strike or dash against.]

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > directly opposed

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alien1563

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pugnant1645

obverse1840

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 74 There is no marriage, but only between the parents and children, of itself and immediately incident and repugnant to natural reason.

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† incidentadj.²n.²

/ɪnˈsʌɪdənt/

Etymology: < Latin incīdent-em, present participle of incīdĕre to incide v.¹

Obsolete.

A. adj.²

That ‘cuts’ the phlegm, etc.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > resolving or dispersing

resolvinga1398

incisive1528

discussing1559

discussive1565

discutient1575

resolvent1655

tmetic1661

discussory1678

inciding1678

incident1855

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Incidens, having power to cut; formerly applied to medicines..supposed to cause the phlegm to be discharged, by cutting, as it were..: incident.

B. n.²

An inciding medicine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing

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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Incidents, or Attenuants, in the materia medica... To this class belong the roots of arum, asarabacca, acorus [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

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单词	incident
释义	incidentn. Brit. /ˈɪnsᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈɪnsədnt/ Forms: Also Middle English incedent, Middle English–1500s incydent. Etymology: < French incident (13th cent.), substantive use of incident adjective; see incident adj.¹ 1. a. Something that occurs casually in the course of, or in connection with, something else, of which it constitutes no essential part; an event of accessory or subordinate character. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > incident incident1412 incidence1423 incidencya1616 the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > non-essentialness > incident incident1412 incidence1423 intercurrent1603 contingencya1626 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. xxxvii In Troye boke no more of hym I fynde..Fro henceforth I can no processe reade But incydentes that beare no substaunce. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xl. 126 Yf an incydent had not ben or this, he had ben farre in the countrey of Hungery. 1533 T. More Apol. xxvi, in Wks. 891/2 The touching of this matter is no part of my principall entent, but happeneth as an incident to fall in my waye. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxi. 63 This present argument, Is: to principall case, but an incident. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 220 Habitations of Defence against the Seasons and other Incidents. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Preserve Corn, by the Moisture of the Weather, want of turning, and some other Incidents, will grow musty. 1879 Athenæum 6 Sept. 305/1 Failures are inevitable incidents. b. An occurrence or event, sometimes comparatively trivial in itself, which precipitates or could precipitate political unrest, open warfare, etc. Also, a particular episode (air-raid, skirmish, etc.) in war; an unpleasant or violent argument, a fracas. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > a particular episode in war incident1913 society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension tirpeilc1330 to-doc1330 affraya1393 frayc1420 tuilyiea1500 fraction1502 broil1525 ruffle1534 hurly-burly1548 embroilment1609 roil1690 fracas1727 row1746 the devil among the tailors1756 noration1773 splorea1791 kick-upa1793 rumption1802 ruction1809 squall1813 tulyie-mulyie1827 shindy1829 shine1832 donnybrook1852 shiveau1862 roughhouse1882 ruckus1885 shemozzle1885 turn-up1891 rookus1892 funk1900 incident1913 potin1922 shivoo1924 furore1946 shindig1961 1913 Ann. Reg. 1912 i. 441 He had invariably done everything France wanted him to do, and, especially at the time of the Agadir incident, had rejected German..advances. 1920 W. S. Blunt My Diaries ii. v. 138 Bramley..had reported the incident in a serious light, and Cromer had taken it up seriously, seeing in it..a danger to the British occupation. 1920 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Aug. (1938) 313 Our communications are very bad, our defence positions all have both flanks in the air, and there seem to have been two incidents lately. 1930 Economist 30 Aug. 392/1 When some special ‘incident’ has occurred, a Mandatory Power frequently furnishes the Commission with additional information. 1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xiv. 245 There were very few ‘incidents’. I visited almost every district of Berlin,..and I saw no man beaten..but I came back..overwhelmed with shame that people could be proud of so much bullying. 1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. iv. 32 One impotent little man from Clapham, who was insolent to the Maharani, received for his pains a dismissal from the Civil Service for having made an ‘incident’. 1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. lv. 242 It was threatening to become an ‘incident’ which might unsettle the peace of India. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 296/1 Such incidents are bound to form an integral part of large-scale warfare under modern conditions. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 40 There are no occasions, occurrences, or events in an airman's life. Anything that happens to him is an ‘incident’..why, nobody knows. 1945 Ann. Reg. 1944 113 They [sc. the Home Guard] had given valuable aid to the Civil Defence Services in dealing with air-raid incidents. 1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 15 The number of ‘incidents’ in the Canal Zone increased. 1959 R. Collier City that wouldn't Die xi. 211 A warden doesn't write off an incident until he has personally made certain there is no one else on the premises. 1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words i. 23 If a business man speaks of incidents when he means quarrels, he has been influenced by journalism. 1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul i. i. 23 The Governor didn't want any incidents. 2. a. An occurrence or event viewed as a separate circumstance. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event weird971 redeOE thingOE limpc1200 casea1250 tidingc1275 timinga1325 being?c1400 incident?1462 advenement1490 occurrent1523 accidenta1525 occurrence1539 affair1550 event1554 happening1561 événement1567 success1588 betide1590 circumstance1592 arrivage1603 eveniency1660 occurrency1671 betider1674 befalling1839 whet1849 intermezzo1851 transpiration1908 ?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 105 Þis and what incidentes [3rd & 4th letters unclear in MS] ye knowe I preie yow by wrytinge certifie me in all hast. 1631 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 7) III. 1026 But of these incidents and occurrents hereafter more. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 81 Rarities in Nature, and surprizing Incidents which Foreigners expect. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 154. ⁋11 The fortuitous collision of happy incidents. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. xi. 202 To relate incidents as they have really happened, is the work of the memory. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 131 Even the high-swelled hopes with which the late incident had filled him, began to quail. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 50 This book..shows a skill in selecting telling incidents. †b. A matter, an affair. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair charec897 matter?c1225 journeya1352 affairc1390 notea1400 incident1485 concernment1495 actiona1500 business1524 concern1680 job1680 ploya1689 show1797 game1812 caper1839 pigeon dropping1850 shebang1869 hoodoo1876 racket1880 palaver1899 scene1964 1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 21 After many wordes and causes leyd and after Innumerable incidentes and reasons alledged atte last they were al acorded. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 25. ⁋4 Upon such Incidents as we decide by Combat. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xlii. 443 (note) This parliament..passed some remarkable incidents. 3. In the arts: a. A distinct piece of action in a play or poem; †in early use, an event subordinate to the main design (so French incident). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > other aspects or elements > [noun] > episode or particular action incident1695 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > situation in a play scene1567 incident1695 situation1754 1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xxxvi No person, no incident..in the Play, but must be of use to carry on the main Design. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋3 The Plot and Incidents of the Play are laid with that Subtilty of Spirit. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Incident, in a Poem, is an Episode or particular Action, tack'd to the principal Action, or depending on it. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 350 A set-off against the pathetic incidents of the play. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 205 The plays of Euripides are more rich in stirring incidents than those of his predecessors. b. A single feature in a picture; especially one that does not form part of the main design or scene. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > part of > specific tarage1439 field1555 sky1606 landscape1656 mass1662 incident1705 second ground1801 pick1836 negative space1949 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 379 The Prospect from the Capucin's Garden, which for the Extent and Variety of pleasing Incidents is, I think, the most charming. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 86 Behind the ‘Sacrifice for the Friends’ of Giotto at Pisa, there is a sweet piece of rock incident. †4. a. Something liable to attach itself to or connect itself with another thing; an accessory circumstance. Const. to, unto (rarely into). Obsolete except as in 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] thingeOE to-tagc12.. estrec1300 casec1325 aboutstanding1340 circumstancec1380 termsa1382 conditionc1384 befalla1492 weather1603 attendant1607 belonginga1616 circumstantial1647 incident1649 incidence1670 incidental1707 attitude1744 circs1883 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. iv. 35 There are two incidents into this practice which may render it not unwarrantable. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 95 in Justice Vindicated Treason does ever produce fatal and final destruction to the offender, and never attaineth to the desired end (two incidents inseparable thereunto). 1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. ii. xi. 236 Virgil, from the various Incidents of this Season, gives many singular and notable Epithets thereto. b. Law. A privilege, burden, custom, etc. commonly or invariably attaching to an office, estate, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal concepts > [noun] > aggregates of rights and duties > right or duty attaching to an office or estate incidence1528 incident1628 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 151 b Incident, a thing appertaining to or following another as a more worthy or principall..And of incidents some be separable, and some inseparable. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Advowzen Advowzen Appendant..depends upon a Mannor, as appurtenant to it, termed by Kitchin an Incident that may be separated from the Subject. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 301 Their dignities had ceased for some ages to be an incident of their tenures. 1817 Ld. Loughborough in Douglass' Rep. II. 727 A fine to be paid on the change of a tenant is almost a constant incident of a copyhold estate. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 39 Some of the ‘incidents’ of tenure by knight-service had their counterpart in tenure in socage. †c. An incidental charge or expense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > incidental or additional oncost1429 uncostc1480 charges1514 by-charge1525 pretereas?a1527 extraordinary1660 incident1737 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 87 (List Officers Excise) Accomptant for Imprest Money for paying of Incidents. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 518 If the salaries of officers, and other incidents, therefore, amount to more than ten per cent. View more context for this quotation 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 38 An Estimate of the Expence..amounted to twenty thousand Pounds, and..we allowed the five hundred for Incidents. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (also incidents). incident book n. a book in which all relevant information is kept at an incident room. ΚΠ 1971 ‘J. Fraser’ Death in Pheasant's Eye xxiii. 132 The Incidents Book was on Inspector Coates' table... The Incidents Book was the Bible of any murder investigation; every action was telephoned to the man who looked after the book. incident office n. = incident room n. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations incident post1967 incident room1971 incident office1972 1972 L. Lamb Pict. Frame xviii. 154 Mr. Glover's incident office is in a red corrugated-iron hut. incident post n. = incident room n. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations incident post1967 incident room1971 incident office1972 1967 E. R. Baker & G. H. Wilkie Police Promotion Handbk. iv. xxiii. 302 It will be clear from the list of duties that the manning of an Incident Post at the scene of a major disaster will call for a sufficiency of staff. incident room n. names for a centre set up by the police close to the scene of a crime, accident, or disaster, from which all operations are controlled and monitored. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > centre for controlling operations incident post1967 incident room1971 incident office1972 1971 ‘J. Fraser’ Death in Pheasant's Eye xxiii. 132 Three night men on duty in the Incidents Room. 1973 Times 12 Mar. 1/5 The murder hunt is being led by Detective Superintendent Brian Weight, who set up an incident room at Aylesbury police station. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). incidentadj.¹ Brit. /ˈɪnsᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈɪnsədnt/ Forms: Also 1500s incydent(e, insedent, insident. Etymology: < French incident or < Latin incident-em , present participle of incidĕre to fall into or to, fall upon, happen to, etc., < in- (in- prefix³) + cadĕre to fall. The senses of the English word are derived < medieval Latin rather than from French. I. Senses relating to incidental occurrence. 1. Liable or apt to befall or occur to; likely to happen; hence, naturally appertaining or attaching. a. Const. to (†in, into), rarely on. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > liable to happen probable?a1425 likely1437 casualc1440 incident1488 incidental to1616 liable1619 the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] > belonging or pertaining appertainingc1386 pertinent1405 incident1488 appendant1509 appropriate1525 appending1527 dependent1528 attaching1768 1488 Will of Walter Stalworth (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 145^v To socour his simple body as they think incident and conuenient to him. 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory iii. xii. sig. g4^v Punyshment..is incydent to the repentaunce whiche taketh away y^e synne. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. viii. sig. G.iiii^v If we well considre these two thinges wel, temptacion & persecucyon, we maye finde y^t eyther of theym is incydent to y^e other. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxxvii. 771 A kind of corruption or maladie insident to the pine-tree. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes v. iv. sig. F^v Commonly we see it incident in artificers to be inamoured of their own workes. 1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 46 Which is not incident in this way of grafting. 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 414 That the Time of the New Jerusalem is comprized in, or, at least, incident into, the Philadelphian Succession. 1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 104 Deliberation and After-thought are not incident to God. 1773 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic (1806) v. §3. 119 The fallacies incident to categorical syllogisms. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 359 The noise..incident on the striking of the tents and the breaking up of the little camp. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxvii. 43 A State Government is a natural growth, which prima facie possesses all the powers incident to any government whatever. b. without construction. ΚΠ 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ij Both the one and the other hath fractions incident. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie* v. lviii. 129 Baptisme is farre more necessarie then any such incident rite or solemnitie ordeined for the better administration thereof. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvi. 204 Æmulations..are incident among Military men. 1653 Woodall's Wks. Pref. 9 To instruct them in the uses and dangers incident by mistakes. a1677 Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. verse 107, in Wks. (1872) VIII. 96 Those in the highest station have their incident cares and troubles. 1898 Daily News 23 July 5/3 The Puerto Rico expedition, and the incident aggressive steps taken in the campaign. 2. Law. Attaching itself, as a privilege, burden, or custom, to an office, position, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal concepts > [adjective] > attaching to an office or estate incident1491 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 §2 Fees and annuyties incident to every or the same Offices. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 21^v It is called a rent seeke, bycause there is no distresse insedent nor belongyng to the same. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. ix Fealte is incident to euery maner of seruyce. 1629 Vse of Law 41 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light To this Tenure by Knights Seruice in chiefe, was incident that the King should haue a certaine summe of money, called Aid. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xi. 176 Where rent is reserved, it is also incident..to the reversion. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iii. 135 Every freeholder holding lands within the manor had, as of right, common of pasturage on the wastes as incident to his lands. †3. Relating or pertinent to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] to (the) purposea1387 pertinentc1390 appliablec1429 relevantc1540 appliant1548 incident1557 relative1579 home1607 effectual1608 ad rem1680 adaptable1718 to the point1817 pointful1898 1557 Ord. Hospitalls F iij The Books of this Howse, incident to the matter. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B2 Such necessary questions, as are incident to my purpose. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. ix. §1. 107 It is not my purpose..to pursue the Historie of the Persians..otherwise then as they shall bee incident to the affaires of Greece. †4. Apt to fall into; liable to; subject to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected subjectablea1382 subject1549 occurrent1566 obnoxious1572 prostitute1591 liable1593 incident1603 patible1603 susceptible1605 obvious1609 recipient1610 affectable1611 susceptive1637 receptivea1676 ticklish1681 subjectiblea1732 vacant1751 timid1764 susceptible1883 impressionable1889 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. lx. 21 Men are not alwaies incident to losse When Fortune seemes their foward cause to crosse. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 18 A wicked and irreligious man is subject and incident to fall into many distresses and casualties. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 84 Ah! ingratefull Zabaim, King incident to all crimes! 1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 55 Spiritual Pride is an evil, the very best of Gods Children are incident unto. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. ix. 138 This state of mortality is incident to perpetual change and revolution. 1767 S. Pennington Lett. IV. 16 The little complaints they [children] are incident to. 5. a. Occurring or liable to occur by the way, or in the course of something else of which it forms no essential part; casual; = incidental adj. 1. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > casual or incidental incident1523 the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential accidental1387 casual1398 incident1523 accidentary?1549 accessarya1555 chanceablea1557 accessory1563 circumstant1583 advenient1594 adventive1605 adventitial1607 circumstantial1608 contingent1628 adventious1633 incidental1644 accessional1646 contingential1647 non-essential1647 extra-essential1667 attachable1798 dividuous1816 inessential1832 peripheral1902 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxix. 493 The duke of Lancaster was nat in the fauoure of the comen people, wherby dyuers incydents parels fell after in England. 1581 Confer. (1584) i. sig. F iv b By occasion incident there was talke of a text of Scripture. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 309 The incident Mistakes, which he has run into, have not fail'd to increase in Number. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 53 in Athenæ Britannicæ III That Doctrine, which those chance-Propositions or incident Expressions seem to insinuate. †b. Of expenses or charges; = incidental adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > types of cost or expenditure incident1652 incidental1740 sunk1771 sumptuary1796 indirect1903 oncost1908 overhead1909 all-up1942 pass-through1952 internalized1971 1652 Act Commw. Sale Est. Ld. Dunbar, etc. The Commissioners shall and may allow all incident charges for the necessary carrying on of this service. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 230 With all the Charges incident. 1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 313 By this means the country loses..the sums of money which each man costs, besides many incident charges, such as horse hire. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 178 He put into my hand a bank note, more than sufficient to defray any incident charges. 6. Subordinate, subsidiary, accessory. a. Anatomy. (See quot. 1855.) ΚΠ 1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Incident Spinal Nerves..those of the spinal system of nerves which convey any impressions on, or irritation of the integuments, or mucous membranes, to the true spinal marrow. †b. incident proposition n. a proposition inserted in a principal one, and introduced by a relative pronoun, as ‘bodies, which are transparent, have many pores’ (Watts); a subordinate relative clause. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > clause > other specific types of clause clausulec1449 protasis1588 illative1604 apodosisa1638 incident proposition1725 subordinate clause1809 subclause1823 adjective clause1834 subject clause1840 nominative absolute1843 that-clause1845 head clause1915 contact-clause1927 content clause1927 wh-clause1957 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. ii. 258 The additional Proposition is called an incident Proposition... The Truth or Falsehood of the whole complex Proposition is not to be judged by the Truth or Falsehood of the incident Proposition. II. Senses relating to falling or striking. 7. Falling or striking upon or against; acting upon anything from without. esp. of light: Falling or striking upon a surface often in photographic contexts. Const. upon. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > impinging striking?1611 incident1668 impinginga1727 impingent1760 incidental1813 impacting1916 1668 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 606 Looking-Glasses..are conspicuous only by the incident beams of the Sun. 1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. ii. 78 The Obliquity of the Incident Ray is great. 1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xv. 91 If the incident Body A, and the Body CDEF upon which it strikes, are void of all Elasticity [etc.]. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 58 Mirrors..adjusted not only to one another, but to the light incident upon each. 1855 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 3) 139 Transparent matter upon which light is incident. 1855 J. Edwards Art Landscape Paint. 37 Illuminated by light actually incident upon the picture. 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. §169 That there may be continuous changes of structure in organisms, there must be continuous changes in the incident forces. 1951 G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-making (ed. 2) ii. 21 The makers of other meters have adopted the Incident-light principle and have provided modifying attachments for their instruments. 1952 J. F. Dunn Exposure Meters i. 22 The term ‘incident light’ is used instead of ‘illumination’ when we wish to consider only the strength of the light being received from the source irrespective of the angle of inclination of the surface receiving it. 1956 Nature 4 Feb. 231/1 Blocks of soil were..directly examined with the aid of the incident-light equipment of a Leitz ‘Ortholux’ microscope. 1962 M. L. Haselgrove Photographers' Dict. 130 Light falling on a surface is said to be incident on the surface. In most photographic writing this term used without qualification refers to the light incident on the subject to be photographed. †8. Opposed to, running counter to. Obsolete. rare. [Compare Latin incidĕre to fall upon, attack, strike or dash against.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > directly opposed repugnantc1443 oppugnanta1513 contrariant1530 alienate1533 alien1563 incidenta1575 contradicting1610 pugnant1645 obverse1840 a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 74 There is no marriage, but only between the parents and children, of itself and immediately incident and repugnant to natural reason. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † incidentadj.²n.² /ɪnˈsʌɪdənt/ Etymology: < Latin incīdent-em, present participle of incīdĕre to incide v.¹ Obsolete. A. adj.² That ‘cuts’ the phlegm, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > resolving or dispersing resolvinga1398 incisive1528 discussing1559 discussive1565 discutient1575 resolvent1655 tmetic1661 discussory1678 inciding1678 incident1855 1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Incidens, having power to cut; formerly applied to medicines..supposed to cause the phlegm to be discharged, by cutting, as it were..: incident. B. n.² An inciding medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing resolutivea1400 resolver?a1450 digester1578 discussive1583 discutient1585 discusser1617 resolvent1676 incider1722 incisive1726 incident1753 discutant1817 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Incidents, or Attenuants, in the materia medica... To this class belong the roots of arum, asarabacca, acorus [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1412adj.¹1488adj.²n.²1753
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