Definition of "coincident"

Of Riuallus, Gurgustius, Sysillius, Iago, and Kinimacus, rulers of Britaine by succession, and of the accidents coincident with their times.Title of chapter VII.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison

Whatever the origin of her walks on the Budmouth Road, her return from those walks was often coincident with Farfrae’s emergence from Corn Street for a twenty minutes’ blow on that rather windy highway―just to winnow the seeds and chaff out of him before sitting down to tea, as he said.

1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 268

General trends, like the coincident decline of the nation-state and the growth of antisemitism, can hardly ever be explained satisfactorily by one reason or by one cause alone.

1951, Hannah Arendt, “Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif., New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, part 1 (Antisemitism), page 4

He seemed unable to shake the bronchitis and the coincident infections it opened him to.

1987, David Foster Wallace, “Lyndon” in Paula Geyh et al. (eds.), Postmodern American Fiction, New York and London: Norton, 1998, p. 380

Hitherto, the Universe of stars has always been considered as coincident with the Universe proper […]

1848, Edgar Allan Poe, “Eureka: A Prose Poem”, in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe‎, volume 2, New York: W. J. Widdleton, page 131

The plot of the Atlantic currents and Atlantic winds is almost, though not quite, coincident.

1954, James Fisher, R. M. Lockley, chapter 1, in Sea-Birds‎, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 4

the whole Doctrine of Christianity teaches nothing, but what is perfectly suteable to, and coincident with, the Ruling Principles that a vertuous, and well Inclined man is Acted by;

1679, Robert South, “A Sermon upon the 7. John 17”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions‎, Oxford: Richard Davis and William Nott, page 290

As to any other laws that slave-holders may make among themselves, as respecting slaves, they can be of no better kind, nor give them any better character, than what is implied in the common report—that there may be some honesty among thieves. This may seem a harsh comparison, but the parallel is so coincident that, I must say, I can find no other way of expressing my Thoughts and Sentiments […]

1787, Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species‎, London, page 4

When I was in London I was shocked at the alteration in our friend Tobin's looks and appearance. Those who always interpret two coincidents into cause and effect would surmise that marriage has been less conducive to his health than to his moral comfort.

December 14, 1808, Sir Humphry Davy, letter to Davy