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English
Verb
circumstanced
- simple past and past participle of circumstance
Adjective
circumstanced (not comparable)
- (in combination) In the specified situation or circumstances.
- Fortunately, I come from a family that was well circumstanced.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1987, Chapter XIV, p. 88,
- It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.
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