a. [f. prec. + -AL, after incidental.]
1. Characterized by, or of the nature of coincidence; loosely = COINCIDENT.
c. 1800. K. White, Rem. (1837), 384. Arguing upon probabilities, with some slight coincidental corroborations.
1845. Illust. Lond. News, 26 July, 59. This coincidental misfortune.
1879. Tinsley’s Mag., XXIV. 147. We have complementary rather than coincidental tastes.
2. Of the nature of a coincidence (sense 4).
1884. R. H. Busk, in N. & Q., Ser. VI. X. 358. I have myself … noted a considerable number of very striking coincidental dreams.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Dec., 4/1. Supposing the apparition itself to have been but a coincidental effect of the other brother’s imagination.
