Definition of Accidentals

1. Noun. (plural of accidental) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accidentals

1. accidental [n] - See also: accidental

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accidentals

accidental falls
accidental host
accidental hypothermia
accidental image
accidental injury
accidental murmur
accidental point
accidental symptom
accidentalism
accidentalist
accidentalists
accidentality
accidentally
accidentally on purpose
accidentalness
accidentals
accidently
accidents
accidents of birth
accidents waiting to happen
accidia
accidias
accidie
accidies
accidious
accinge
accinged
accinges
accinging
accipenser

Literary usage of Accidentals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"... they must be treated as genuine Cadences upon one of the Regular or Conceded Modulations of the Mode in question, and the necessary accidentals must be ..."

2. The piano-forte primer by John Freckleton Burrowes (1823)
"Sixth and Seventh, as has been before remarked, are raised by Accidentals, in the Ascending Scale. Why are the Sixth and Seventh Notes of the Ascending ..."

3. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"But no society is in both essentials and accidentals, good totally or totally bad. It is a miscellany; its good and bad are mixed; they are either essential ..."

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