adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a circumstantial manner.
a. As to circumstances.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xx. § 18. Divinity … circumscribeth Physick, and circumstantially determins the use thereof.
1858. J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 176. The Son of God,… morally divine and circumstantially human.
b. By attention to mere casual features.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., I. § 1. Maim not uprightness by halting concomitances, nor circumstantially deprave substantial goodness.
c. Incidentally, non-essentially.
1656. Hardy, 1 John xxviii. (1865), 177. A new commandment, not substantially, but circumstantially.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xiii. 72. These powers [Phancy and Intellect] are only circumstantially different.
d. In every circumstance or particular; with full detail, particularly, minutely.
1665. Phil. Trans., I. 100. He was desirous to have it very circumstantially from the said Physician himself.
1814. Chalmers, Evid. Chr. Revel., iii. 87. A favourable presumption, when a Story is told circumstantially.
e. In its circumstances; on circumstantial evidence.
1796. Bp. Watson, Apol. Bible, 240. The story circumstantially belies itself.
