Both Uses of
incidental
in
The Magic Mountain
- And anyway, I only mentioned it incidentally.†
Chpt 3.6incidentally = of something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
- But you have misunderstood me, the natural phenomenon of which I speak is not a current event; it took place, incidentally, some one hundred and fifty years ago.†
Chpt 5.5 *
Definition:
something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
sometimes 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.)