Obs. [f. L. type *circumstantiāt-us: see -ATE.] = CIRCUMSTANTIATED. (Now chiefly Sc.)
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., I. iii. 87. Let the meditation be as minute, particular, and circumstantiate as it may.
1669. H. Stubbe, Censure (1671), 15. This circumstantiate Limited infallibility.
1723. W. Buchanan, Family Buchanan (1820), 140. Genealogies more exact and circumstantiate than the former.
1769. Scots Mag., Sept., 688/1. Evidence so circumstantiate as that which I have already observed.
1803. Edin. Rev., II. 255. Circumstantiate details relative to the history of the work itself.
