Accident
an unforeseen occurrence, particularly if it be of a calamitous character.
In logic: (a) Whatever does not really constitute an essential part of a person or thing; as the clothes one wears saddle on a horse, etc. (b) The qualities or attributes of a person or thing, as opposed to the substance. Thus bitterness, hardness, etc., are attributes, and not part of the substance in which they inhere. they inhere . (c) That which may be absent from anything, leaving its essence still unimpaired.
Accidents, in logic, are of two kinds, separable and inseparable. If walking be the accident of a particular man, it is a separable one, for he would not cease to be that man though he stood still; while on the contrary, if Spaniard is the accident connected with him, it is an inseparable one, since he never can cease ACCIDENT INSURANCE to be, ethnologically considered, what he was born.
In grammar, a property attached to a word which nevertheless does not enter into its essential definition.