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incidental (iou)



incidental adjective & noun. E17.
[Orig. from medieval Latin incidentalis (cf. angulus incidentalis angle of incidence), from Latin incident-: see INCIDENT adjective, -AL1. In mod. use from INCIDENT noun + -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Liable to happen to; naturally attaching to. E17.
J. Inglis The dangers incidental to pigsticking.
Occurring as something casual or of secondary importance; not directly relevant to; following (up)on as a subordinate circumstance. M17.
incidental music: used as a background to the action of a play, film, broadcast, etc.
H. Spencer With the..moral man, correct conduct..is merely incidental upon the fulfilment of his own nature. O. W. Holmes Writing verse should be an incidental occupation only, not interfering with the hoe..or the ledger.
b. Of an expense or charge: incurred apart from the main sum disbursed. M18.
c. Casually met with. rare. M19.
b. noun. An incidental circumstance, event, etc.; in pl., incidental expenses. E18.
incidentalist noun a person who describes or insists on what is merely incidental E20.
incidentally adverb in an incidental manner, as a casual or subordinate circumstance; (introducing a remark not strictly relevant) as a further thought: M17.