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Accidence vs Accedence - What's the difference?

accidence | accedence |

As nouns the difference between accidence and accedence

is that accidence is (grammar) the accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar while accedence is the act of acceding.

accidence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) The accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
  • :(John Milton)
  • A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art.
  • The rudiments of any subject.
  • * James Russell Lowell
    • Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well

    Related terms

    * accident (Webster 1913)

    accedence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of acceding