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Circumstantiating

Circumstantiate \Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumstantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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).

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circumstantiating

vb. (present participle of circumstantiate English)