Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by accidents or irregularities of surface; undulating.
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Examples
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I, for one, think Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Rethuglicans are lucky the CIA didn't have them "accidented" for their arrogant and disgusting behaviour.
Gonzales Countdown: Will Patrick Fitzgerald Be Next Attorney General? 2007
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And yet I often wonder whether even he might not have found the last six years almost too highly "accidented" even for him.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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The course of these loves is necessarily "accidented," and the accidents are well enough managed from the first, and naturally enough best known, where Celadon flings himself into the river and is rescued, insensible but alive, by nymphs, who all admire him very much, though none of them can affect his passion for Astrée.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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The story of _Corinne_, though not extraordinarily "accidented" and, as will be seen, adulterated, or at least mixed, with a good many things that are not story at all, is fairly solid, much more so than that of
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Nature was a great pedagogue, and any social engineering, any mechanical scheme of education, could not replace the accidented and multifaceted influences that, he claimed, made him a poet.
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And yet I often wonder whether even he might not have found the last six years almost too highly “accidented” even for him.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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The later part of the story, as is rather the way with Pigault, becomes more "accidented."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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But it suited me not less excellently; the highest and most accidented of the sand hills immediately adjoined; and from these, lying flat in a hollow, I could overlook Northmour or the young lady as they walked.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889
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The only white resident is Mr. Julio, who has led a rather accidented life.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Battle is delivered on more accidented terrain, as armies with great mobility do not need any particular terrain to fight on.
Battle Studies Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq 1845
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