Word Meanings - ACCIDENTALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

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• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• ACCIDENTALNESS
  The quality of being accidental; casualness.
• CASUALLY
  Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
• ACCIDENTALITY
  The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. Coleridge.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CHANCELLOR
  A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• ACCIDENTALISM
  Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CHANCE-MEDLEY
  The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley. Note: The term has been sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, or to any accidental killing of a person without premeditation
• ACCIDENTAL
  1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. 2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• MISCHANCEFUL
  Unlucky. R. Browning.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MUM-CHANCE
  2. A silent, stupid person. Halliwell.