They knew that the Orders in Council bore hard upon the Americans, but they considered that as merely incidental.

The voting with the friends of lord North upon that question, was a matter purely incidental.

Adj. happening &c v.; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis^; at issue, in question; incidental.

It is manifestly incidental to the great objects of the first part of the grant, which authorizes Congress to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, a power of vast extent, not granted by the Confederation, the grant of which formed one of the principal inducements to the adoption of this Constitution.

King Ferdinand temporised, denying the truth of the reports of persecution and alleging that no oppressive measures had been adopted against the Moors, describing whatever hardships they may have suffered as unavoidably incidental to the reorganisation of the recently acquired provinces.