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Coincident means two things exist or happen at the same time, or in the same place. It does not, by itself, say this was luck. A fever can be coincident with a rash: they show up together. On a map, two lines can be coincident: they lie right on top of each other. Writers often put with after it: coincident with the new rule, prices went up. This is a careful, rather formal word. In everyday talk most people just say at the same time or together with. Do not mix it up with coincidental, which adds the idea of chance.
同時發生的；同時的；重合的
組成Borrowed from French coïncident, from Latin coincidēns, the “coinciding” form of coincidō (“to coincide”). That verb is co- (“together”) + incidō (“to fall into”). The picture is two things falling into the same moment or place. The noun later came from this adjective.
同家族的字
- coincidethe verb from the same Latin root: to happen at the same time or agree
- coincidencethe noun: two things happening together, often by chance
- coincidentalsame family, but this one adds the idea of chance
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coincidentadj/kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)nt/
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Of two or more objects: being in the same location.
- 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.
- [T]he ſides of the angles A and D are coincident; vvherefore thoſe angles are equall. VVhich vvas to be Dem[onstrated].
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Of two or more events: occurring at the same time; contemporaneous.
- 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.
- 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.
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Of two or more things: having the same qualities; being in accordance; consonant, matching.
- [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.
- 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.
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obsoleteChiefly followed by to: accompanying, concomitant, incident.
- Empires of Kings, are novv, and ever vvere / As Saluſt ſaith, co-incident to feare.
coincidentnoun/kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)nt/
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obsoleteOne of multiple incidents or things which coincide with each other; a concomitant.
- In truth, vve thought it (coming immediately from an infected place) an hazardous incivilitie, to put our ſelves upon them; for if any ſiniſter accident had fallen out about the ſame time (for Coincidents are not alvvaies Cauſes) vve ſhould have rued it for ever.
- […] I despayre of ever living to see a man truely noble indeede: they may be called "My Lord;" titles and sounds and inferior trifles; but when Virtue and blood are coincidents, they both add lustre and mutual excellencys.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。