ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. + -ED.]
† 1. Placed in particular circumstances; affected by circumstances, circumstanced, conditioned. Obs.
a. 1628. Preston, Breastp. Faith (1630), 112. If you think your sinnes so circumstantiated … that though others have been forgiven yet you cannot.
1692. Ray, Disc., III. xii. (1732), 440. A moderate and well circumstantiated use of Pleasures.
1888. U. Presbyt. Mag., 394. The question … of sustaining a call as it was presently circumstantiated.
b. spec. of material circumstances or condition.
1712. Swift, Public Spirit Whigs. A number infinitely superior and the best circumstantiated … are for the succession in the House of Hanover.
2. Detailed; declared with circumstance.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 3.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., xix. 176. Express and circumstantiated Prophecies of things to come.
1756. J. Warton, Ess. Pope (1782), I. § 2. 20. The stag-chase … is not so full, so animated, and so circumstantiated, as that of Somerville.
1823. Bentham, Not Paul, 365. The circumstantiated and dramatic style of this part of the narrative, seems to add to the probability, that, on this occasion, the historian himself was present.
