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单词 circumstantially
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circumstantiallyadv.

/səːkəmˈstanʃəli/
Etymology: formed as circumstantial adj. + -ly suffix2.
In a circumstantial manner.
a. As to circumstances.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adverb]
circumstantially1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xx. §18 Divinity..circumscribeth Physick, and circumstantially determins the use thereof. View more context for this quotation
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 176 The Son of God..morally divine and circumstantially human.
b. By attention to mere casual features.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adverb] > by attention to mere casual features
circumstantiallya1682
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 1 Maim not Uprightness by halting Concomitances, nor circumstantially deprave substantial Goodness.
c. Incidentally, non-essentially.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adverb] > non-essentially or incidentally
accidentallya1398
accidentlya1460
accidentarily1591
extra-essentiallya1652
adventitiously1653
circumstantially1656
incidentally1665
1656 N. Hardy First Epist. John (1865) xxviii. 177 A new commandment, not substantially, but circumstantially.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 98 These powers [sc. Phansy and Intellect] are only circumstantially different.
d. In every circumstance or particular; with full detail, particularly, minutely.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > circumstantially
circumstantially1665
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 100 He was desirous to have it very circumstantially from the said Physician himself.
1814 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. iii. 87 A favourable presumption, when a Story is told circumstantially.
e. In its circumstances; on circumstantial evidence.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adverb] > according to circumstance
circumstantially1796
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 240 The story circumstantially belies itself.
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