accidence

noun3

1. •
   The inflection of words.

   • To teach Schollars how to bee able to reade well, and write true Orthography, in a short space. 2. To make them ready in all points of Accedence and Grammar, to answere any necessary question therein. — 1627
2. •
   A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art.

   • And forsomuch as this treateth of blazon of Armes, and of the worthie bearers of them […] I therefore, have named this, the Accedence of Armorie […] — 1562
3. •
   The rudiments of any subject.