
ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin accidiosus (listless, slothful),
from accidia (slothfulness, apathy, lethargy) + Latin -osus (-ous)
PRONUNCIATION
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EXAMPLE
“…Þe accidious man haþ ydilnesse, sleuþe, & sleep for his god…”
From: The Pore Caitif, edited from MS. Harley, a1400
(a late fourteenth-century Middle English manual of religious instruction intended for the use of the laity)