incidental's Usage Examples:

A start was made through the efforts of the palaeontologists and geologists, with only indirect or incidental aid from the archaeologists.

We play a little game which I find most useful in developing the intellect, and which incidentally answers the purpose of a language lesson.

"Schizomycetes exist in every part of the alimentary canal of animals, except, perhaps, where acid secretions prevail; these are by no means necessarily harmful, though, by destroying the teeth for instance, certain forms may incidentally be the forerunners of damage which they do not directly cause.

Besides the works mentioned he has written incidental music to plays, as, for instance, to Ravenswood, The Little Minister, and Coriolanus; concertos and other works for violin and orchestra, much orchestral music, and many songs and violin pieces.

From the Grisons, who favoured France and Venice, Spain seized the Valtelline in 1620, incidentally uprooting heresy there by the massacre of six hundred Protestants.

Yothers has a foster sister who is coincidentally also named Tina.

"He considers " bodily effects " incidentals to the real work of God, but his own mystic devotion and the experiences of his wife during the Awakening (which he gives in detail) make him think that the divine visitation usually overpowers the body, a view in support of which he quotes Scripture.

These were incidental trophies; Herschel's main object was the exploration of the sidereal heavens.

This would fix the date of his death in 738; and, as Alcuin tells us he was eighty-one years old when he died, it may be inferred that he was born in 657 - a theory on which all the dates given above are based, though it must be added that they are substantially confirmed by the incidental notices of Bede.

The fragments of Sappho have been preserved by other authors incidentally.

Students are responsible for all transportation, including airfare and transfers, as well as all incidentals while at the ashram.

But incidentally the scandals of the palace had a large and unsavoury part in the political troubles of Spain.

Synonyms:

parenthetic, omissible, incident, peripheral, secondary, parenthetical,

Antonyms:

indispensable, central, major, dominant, basic,