per accidens

English

Alternative forms

• per accidence

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin conversio per accidens, English from 1425.

Adverb

per accidens (not comparable)

1. By chance; by reason of an accidental, incidental or non-essential circumstance; contingently; indirectly.

Antonyms

• per se

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “per accidens”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• discrepance