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▪ I. † circumˈstantiate, a. Obs.
[f. L. type *circumstantiāt-us: see -ate.]
= circumstantiated. (Now chiefly Sc.)
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. iii. 87 Let the meditation be as minute, particular, and circumstantiate as it may. 1669H. Stubbe Censure (1671) 15 This circumstantiate Limited infallibility. 1723W. Buchanan Family Buchanan (1820) 140 Genealogies more exact and circumstantiate than the former. 1769Scots Mag. Sept. 688/1 Evidence so circumstantiate as that which I have already observed. 1803Edin. Rev. II. 255 Circumstantiate details relative to the history of the work itself.
▪ II. circumstantiate, v.|sɜːkəmˈstænʃ(ɪ)eɪt|
[f. L. type *circumstantiāre: see -ate. Cf. F. circonstancier (Cotgr. 1611).]
†1. ‘To place in certain circumstances, to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts’ (J.), to define or limit by imposed conditions. Obs.
1638Penit. Conf. v. (1657) 72 [A] man not circumstantiated with any office. 1657Burton's Diary (1828) II. 118 A Committee to consider how that title [Lord Protector] may be bounded, limited, and circumstantiated. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 70 We take Care so to Time, Accommodate, and Circumstantiate our good Discourses that they may really do good. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 342 God..So circumstantiated the Black Designs.
2. To set forth, narrate, or support, with circumstances or particulars. (Not in J.)
1658–9Onslow in Burton's Diary (1828) III. 297 You ought first to have a charge before you, that may circumstantiate time and place. 1769Mrs. Montagu Lett. IV. 298 The story..dwelt upon, circumstantiated, and as it were represented..deviates into the comic. 1841De Quincey Homer Wks. VI. 383 De Foe..has so plausibly circumstantiated his false historical records as to make them pass for genuine, even with critics.
Hence circumˈstantiating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 465 Those circumstantiating and straitening conditions of time and place. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ii. 33 The comparative circumstantiating of that action. 1768Phil. Trans. LIX. 503 Symbols, not characterized by the farther circumstantiating lines. |