circumstantiate

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English

Etymology

Blend of circumstantial +‎ -ate

Verb

circumstantiate (third-person singular simple present circumstantiates, present participle circumstantiating, simple past and past participle circumstantiated)

  1. To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
    • 1661, State Trials:
      Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.
  2. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
    • 1655, John Bramhall, Vindication of True Liberty:
      If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.

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