GEN: Stumper re Witch of Blackbird Pond

[Dorian Garbin <dgarbin@PROLOG.NET>]

Hi, All!

My 8th grade English teacher has asked me to identify something in a line
mentioned on pg. 22 of this book.  John Holbrook is talking about studying
at Harvard to become a minister.  He states,

        "...I was set on college.  I finished all the requirements in Latin.
I know The Accidence [italicized] almost by heart."

Does anyone know what the "Accidence" is?  I checked Benet's Reader's
Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia American, and Encyclopedia Britannica, but no
luck. There was a definition in my unabridged dictionary for accidence with
a lower case A (...inflection of words, non-essential qualities or
circumstances...)

Thanks for your help!

Dorian
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