The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumstanced \Cir"cum*stanced\ (s[~e]r"k[u^]m*st[a^]nst), p. a.
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Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other.
--Whewell. Governed by events or circumstances. [Poetic & R.] ``I must be circumstanced.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: circumstance)
Usage examples of "circumstanced".
And in two countries very differently circumstanced, individuals of the same species, having slightly different constitutions or structure, would often succeed better in the one country than in the other, and thus by a process of 'natural selection,' as will hereafter be more fully explained, two sub-breeds might be formed.
Intercrosses, also, with the individuals of the same species, which otherwise would have inhabited the surrounding and differently circumstanced districts, will be prevented.
Hybrids, however, are differently circumstanced before and afterbirth: when born and living in a country where their two parents can live, they are generally placed under suitable conditions of life.
If two great regions had been for a long period favourably circumstanced in an equal degree, whenever their inhabitants met, the battle would be prolonged and severe.
I confess that in this respect I think that but few towns are at present more fortunately circumstanced than the capital of the Bay State, as Massachusetts is called, and that very few towns make a better use of their advantages.
But she is so circumstanced geographically that she can never stand alone without amalgamation with our other North American provinces.
But as the railway system grew and expanded itself, it became manifest that lands might be rendered quickly available which were not so circumstanced by nature.
It is a good thing in the mind of a general so circumstanced that 200,000 men should be made subject to a dozen big guns.
Of course, the further induction to be shown was this: that people so circumstanced should marry among themselves.
He could not help telling himself now and again that, circumstanced as he was, he was most specially bound to take joy in any sign of reformation that the baronet might show.
He, at any rate, must know how the property is circumstanced, and I suppose he will not hesitate to tell me.
They were not rough and unruly, or inclined to be troublesome and perhaps violent, as men similarly circumstanced so often are in England.
If I could only make you understand how we are all circumstanced here.
What mother, circumstanced as she had been, would have given her girl to Owen Fitzgerald?
The interest which he had taken in the welfare of the poor around him was well known, and as his own story was well known also, there could be no doubt that the government would be willing to assist one so circumstanced, and who when assisted would make himself so useful.