completely trumps everything else that's been happening in the episode. The entire mode of The Cosby Show can't proceed, o.J. This is a huge problem and until we educate the people on what it is, it’s going to keep happening.įirst of all, I don’t remember that happening, but I am sure it did, and then I heard that there was a documentary or something and she ‘what do you think of Ben Stiller?’ And she said ‘lucky’ or something… So then the beef started. The accident of birth an accident to the machinery. Compare EVENT HAZARD.Īccident, adventure, calamity, casualty, chance, contingency, disaster, fortuity, hap, hazard, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, possibilityĪppointment, calculation, certainty, decree, fate, foreordination, intention, law, necessity, ordainment, ordinance, plan, preparation, provision, purpose A slight disturbing accident is a mishap. An adventure is that which may turn out ill, a misadventure that which does turn out ill. Since the unintended is often the undesirable, accident tends to signify some calamity or disaster, unless the contrary is expressed, as when we say a fortunate or happy accident. Fortune and chance are nearly equivalent, but chance can be used of human effort and endeavor as fortune can not be we say 'he has a chance of success,' or 'there is one chance in a thousand,' where we could not substitute fortune as personified, Fortune is regarded as having a fitful purpose, Chance as purposeless we speak of fickle Fortune, blind Chance ' Fortune favors the brave.' The slaughter of men is an incident of battle unexpected defeat, the fortune of war.

Fortune is the result of inscrutable controlling forces.

An incident is viewed as occurring in the regular course of things, but subordinate to the main purpose, or aside from the main design. We can speak of a game of chance, but not of a game of accident. To the theist there is, in strictness, no chance, all things being by divine causation and control but chance is spoken of where no special cause is manifest: 'By chance there came down a certain priest that way,' Luke x, 31. If the direct cause of a railroad accident is known, we can not call it a chance. An accident is that which happens without any one's direct intention a chance that which happens without any known cause.

Another word for things happening