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1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 9:
It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy. She outwardly expresses no preference for either option, considering each to hold certain consequences incident to it.
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J S, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie,, London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana
the studies incident to his profession
1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman, page 245:
The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.
The second inequality follows from the fact that all the edges incident with a fixed vertex separate [an arbitrary graph] G.
1968, Peter Dembowski, Finite Geometries, page 315:
If there is only one ideal point U and only one ideal line u, then either (i) every point in u is incident with a line in U, or else (ii) no point in u is incident with any line of U.