incident
/ˈɪnsɪdənt/ adjective C2- Arising as the result of an event, inherent. · No major hazards incident to this job.
- Falling on or striking a surface. · The incident light illuminated the surface.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining. · 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana the studies incident to his profession
- Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- In a relation of incidence
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It was his specialty to be accurate as to fact, but his recent illness had shaken him, and this one little incident was enough to show me that he was still far from being himself.
“Certainly the incident was unusual.
I fear that the incident must have a very prejudicial effect upon his career.”
A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask—an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.
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