circumstantiate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb give circumstantial evidence for

WordNet


Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate transitive verb
Etymology
See Circumstantiating ().
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Circumstantiated ; present participle & verbal noun Circumstantiating
Definitions
  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. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to entr into details concerning.
    Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

Webster 1913