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Circumstantiate v. t. (past & past part. circumstantiated; pres. part. circumstantiating)

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."

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."

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Etymology of 'Circumstantiate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circumstantiate" Quotes from Famous Books

... it gives so great a Life to Epic, that it hardly can be agreeable without it, and I question whether ever it has been so. Nor is he more just, I think, against Tasso's Episodes, which he blames as not proper to circumstantiate his principal Action, not entring into the Causes and Effects thereof, but seeking too much to please, tho' I think this Charge is unjust, for 'tis in his Episodes, if any where, that Tasso is admirable. I might here give several Instances, but shall, at present, only refer my ...

— Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) • Samuel Wesley

Words linked to "Circumstantiate" : corroborate