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Word Meanings - INCIDENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious

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Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business. Rogers. Syn. -- Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance; collateral. See Accidental. -- In`cen*den"tal*ly, adv. -- In`cen*den"tal*ness, n. I treat either or incidentally of colors. Boyle.

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  • CONTINGENT
    Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
  • ADDITIVE
    Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
  • CONDITIONALITY
    The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
  • LATERAL
    Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
  • OBLIQUENESS
    Quality or state of being oblique.
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • CONDITIONAL
    Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
  • ADJUNCTIVELY
    In an adjunctive manner.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • ADJUNCTIVE
    Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
  • DEPENDENT
    1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
  • PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
    Having the properties of a parallelogram.
  • PARALLEL SULCUS
    A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
  • UNCERTAINLY
    In an uncertain manner.
  • COLLATERALLY
    1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
  • PARALLELIZE
    To render parallel.
  • PARALLELABLE
    Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall.
  • INDIRECTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
  • INDIRECTION
    Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
  • LATERALITY
    The state or condition of being lateral.
  • INTERDEPENDENT
    Mutually dependent.
  • PLANE-PARALLEL
    Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
  • INCONDITIONAL
    Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
  • UNCONDITIONAL
    Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
  • ANTIPARALLEL
    Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

 

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