Talk:incident

designed? by design? in what sense? -- Visviva 05:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I have rewritten the incorrect definitions. Translations now need to be checked. SemperBlotto 06:59, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

(postpositive)

2. (postpositive) followed by to: related (to) or dependent (on)
3. when postpositive, often followed by to: having a subsidiary or minor relationship (with)
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers

--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

"an instrument incident and lacerant"

What does it mean here? Striking a surface, perhaps, but not in the specialist physics sense?

• 1785, Christopher Hervey, Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany... (page 225)

  Sixthly, one upon the left temple, with laceration of the integuments and entire fracture of the bone, till part of the matter of the brain came out; made by an instrument incident and lacerant.

Equinox ◑ 17:57, 7 February 2021 (UTC)