coincident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)nt/
ipa: /koʊˈɪnsəd(ə)nt/
ipa: /-ˌdɛnt/
Forms: form: more coincident
form: most coincident
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French coïncident, from Medieval Latin coincidentem, an accusative singular form of Latin coincidēns (“coinciding”), the present active participle of coincidō (“to coincide”), from co- (variant of con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects)) + incidō (“to fall into any condition”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: It is neceſſary therefore that this nevv created or replaced thing do not onely fill ſome part of the Space [i.e. “imaginary space”] above-mentioned, or be coincident and coextended vvith it, but alſo, that it have no dependance upon our thought.
ref: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Body and Accident”, in anonymous translator, Elements of Philosophy, the First Section, Concerning Body. […], London: […] R[obert] & W[illiam] Leybourn for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, part 2 (The First Grounds of Philosophy), paragraph 1, page 74:
text: [T]he ſides of the angles A and D are coincident; vvherefore thoſe angles are equall. VVhich vvas to be Dem[onstrated].
ref: 1660, Euclid, “Prop[osition] VIII”, in Isaac Barrow, transl., Euclide’s Elements; […], London: […] R[oger] Daniel, for William Nealand […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 13:
text: [A]ll the Colours of the ſame Ring muſt be coincident, and by their mixture exhibit a vvhite Ring.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The Second Book of Opticks. Part II.] Remarks on the Foregoing Observations”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 39:
text: Hitherto, the Universe of stars has always been considered as coincident with the Universe proper, as I have defined it in the commencement of this Discourse. It has always been either directly or indirectly assumed—at least since the dawn of intelligible Astronomy—that, were it possible for us to attain any given point in space, we should still find, on all sides of us, an interminable succession of stars.
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, pages 27–28:
text: On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:
text: The primary cause of the ocean currents, and of the prevailing winds which are associated with them, is the rotation of the earth. The plot of the Atlantic currents and Atlantic winds is almost, though not quite, coincident.
ref: 1954, James Fisher, R. M. Lockley, “The North Atlantic Ocean: Its Structure and Its Sea-birds”, in Sea-Birds: An Introduction to the Natural History of the Sea-birds of the North Atlantic, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Of two or more objects: being in the same location.
examples: text: The 13th year of his [Darius II's] Reign vvas coincident in vvinter vvith the 20th of the Peloponneſian vvar, and the years of that vvar are ſtated by indiſputable characters, and agreed on by all Chronologers: the vvar began in ſpring, Ann[o] 1. Olymp[iad] 87, laſted 27 years, and ended Apr. 14. An. 4. Olymp. 93.
ref: a. 1728, Isaac Newton, “Of the Empire of the Persians”, in The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], and J[ohn] Osborn and T[homas] Longman […], published 1728, →OCLC, page 365:
text: Whatever the origin of her walks on the Budmouth Road, her return from those walks was often coincident with Farfrae's emergence from Corn Street for a twenty minutes' blow on that rather windy highway―just to winnow the seeds and chaff out of him before sitting down to tea, as he said.
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 268:
text: General trends, like the coincident decline of the nation-state and the growth of antisemitism, can hardly ever be explained satisfactorily by one reason or by one cause alone.
ref: 1951, Hannah Arendt, “Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, part 1 (Antisemitism), page 4:
text: Duverger's health declined. He seemed unable to shake the bronchitis and the coincident infections it opened him to.
ref: 1989, David Foster Wallace, “Lyndon”, in Paula Geyh, Fred G[ifford] Leebron, Andrew Levy, editors, Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, published 1998, →ISBN, part IV (Revisiting History), page 380:
glosses: Of two or more events: occurring at the same time; contemporaneous.
examples: text: [A] biſhop is he to whomſoeuer the publike cure and charge of ſoules is committed, without any limitation of place. And ſo the name of biſhop is coincident with the office of apoſtle, or any publike paſtor, doctor, or curat of the vniuerſall flocke of Chriſt.
ref: 1610 October, John Foxe, “The Letter of Gregory to the Patriarch of Alexandria”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book, marginal note, page 14, column 1:
text: For, say they, the whole doctrine of Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles; that a virtuous and well-inclined man is acted by and with the main interest that he proposes to himself.
ref: 1679, Robert South, “Sermon VI. Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected by the Jews. John VII. 17..”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], new edition, volume I, London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 100:
text: As to any other laws that slave-holders may make among themselves, as respecting slaves, they can be of no better kind, nor give them any better character, than what is implied in the common report—that there may be some honesty among thieves. This may seem a harsh comparison, but the parallel is so coincident that, I must say, I can find no other way of expressing my Thoughts and Sentiments, without making use of some harsh words and comparisons against the carriers on of such abandoned wickedness.
ref: 1787, Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, […], London: [s.n.], published c. 1950?, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Of two or more things: having the same qualities; being in accordance; consonant, matching.
examples: text: Empires of Kings, are novv, and ever vvere / As Saluſt ſaith, co-incident to feare.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Empires”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: Chiefly followed by to: accompanying, concomitant, incident.
Synonyms: word: coincidental
word: coinciding
Derived terms: anticoincident
coincidental
coincident indicator
coincidently
incoincident
noncoincident
Related terms: coincide
coincidence