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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)
- 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.
- 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.
Translations
to give out circumstantial evidence
to place in particular circumstances