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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Circumstantiate

· Cir·cum·stan·ti·ate · IPA
01 v. t. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
imp. & p. p. Circumstantiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumstantiating
  1. 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. 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).