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)