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Circumstantiate \Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Circumstantiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Circumstantiating}.]
[See {Circumstantiating} (?).]
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1. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with
particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.]
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If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might
will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.
--Bramhall.
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2. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into
details concerning.
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Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these
particulars, which I have only touched in the
general. --State Trials
(1661).
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