All 3 Uses of
incidental
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But for that ending a quite different anxiety arose, a new, incidental, but yet fatal and insoluble difficulty presented itself.†
Chpt 8 *
- "At that point one of the lawyers asked him, as it were incidentally, the most simple question, 'Wasn't it Smerdyakov killed him?'†
Chpt 12
- The criminal can only be made to speak by the sudden and apparently incidental communication of some new fact, of some circumstance of great importance in the case, of which he had no previous idea and could not have foreseen.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(incidental as in: an incidental expense) something that comes with something else, but is less important than itsometimes in a specialized sense, including:
- incidental expenses or when in context, just incidentals -- minor expenses not budgeted or not specified
- incidental music -- music in a play, television program, radio program, video game or some other form not primarily musical. (The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack.)