English Dictionary: circumstantiating | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Circumstantiate \Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Circumstantiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Circumstantiating}.] [See {Circumstantiating} ([?]).] 1. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.] If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. --Bramhall. 2. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning. Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. --State Trials (1661). |