circumstantiate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to set forth or support with circumstances or particulars.
Documents circumstantiated her evidence.
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to describe fully or minutely.
He circumstantiated the accident.
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Etymology
Origin of circumstantiate
1640–50; < Latin circumstanti ( a ) circumstance + -ate 1
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We would have our eyes upon that too, so to circumstantiate all our duties, as they may have least offence in them, and be exposed to least obloquy of men, 1 Pet. ii.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Men often hate sin, only as it is circumstantiate, but Christian hatred is a hatred of the nature, like the deadly feuds, which are enmities against the kind and name.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Especially when an action is so circumstantiated, that it would infer an omission of our duty, and a declining from or denying of our testimony, then it is clearly sinful.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
Further, It will also infer a declining from, and denying a necessary testimony, in the case circumstantiated.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander
The Case, being thus circumstantiated, Sir, I hope you will not interrupt me any longer, lest my Rivals here in the Field should happen to circumvent me.
From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire
Her blank verse "Washing Day," descriptive of the discomforts attending a mistimed visit to a rustic friend, under the affliction of a family washing, is picturesquely circumstantiated.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
Donne affirms that there is; and, reviewing several eminent cases of spontaneous martyrdom, he endeavors to show that acts so motived and so circumstantiated will not come within the notion of suicide properly defined.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
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