accidence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
    inflectional morphology.

WordNet

Ac"ci*dence noun
Etymology
A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2.
Definitions
  1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.
  2. The rudiments of any subject. Lowell.

Webster 1913