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Meaning of CIRCUMSTANTIATE

Pronunciation:  `surkum'stanshee`eyt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [v]  give circumstantial evidence for
 
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 See Also: corroborate, validate

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Circumstantiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Circumstantiating}.]
[See {Circumstantiating} (?).]
1. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with
   particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.]
         If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might
         will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.
                                               --Bramhall.
2. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into
   details concerning.
         Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these
         particulars, which I have only touched in the
         general.                              --State Trials
                                               (1661).
 
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