Dictionary entry

Circumstantiate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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).