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Circumstantial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Attending; relating to; but not essential.

2. Consisting in or pertaining to circumstances, or to particular incidents.

4. Abounding with circumstances, or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular; as a circumstantial account or recital.

5. In law, circumstantial evidence is that which is obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption.

Circumstantial [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Circumstantials, in the plural, are things incident to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to essentials; as the circumstantials of religion.

Circumstantial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.

2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential.

3. Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.

Circumstantial [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.

Circumstantiality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The appendage of circumstances; the state of any thing as modified by circumstances.

2. Particularity in exhibiting circumstances; minuteness; as the circumstantiality of a story or description.

Circumstantiality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.

Circumstantially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. According to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.

2. Minutely; exactly; in every circumstance of particular.

Circumstantially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.

2. In every circumstance or particular; minutely.