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circumstantial
circumstantial
4 definitions found
for circumstantial
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Circumstantial \Cir`cum*stan"tial\, n.
Something incidental to the main subject, but of less
importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the
plural; as, the circumstantials of religion. --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
circumstantial \cir`cum*stan"tial\ (s[~e]r`k[u^]m*st[a^]n"shal),
a. [Cf. F. circonstanciel.]
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1. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or
particular incidents.
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The usual character of human testimony is
substantial truth under circumstantial variety.
--Paley.
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2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
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We must therefore distinguish between the essentials
in religious worship . . . and what is merely
circumstantial. --Sharp.
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3. Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all
the circumstances; minute; particular.
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Tedious and circumstantial recitals. --Prior.
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Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from
circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts
of a particular nature, from which arises presumption.
According to some authorities circumstantial is
distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is
the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission
of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all such
testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support.
All testimony is more or less circumstantial. --Wharton.
Syn: See Minute.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
circumstantial
adj 1: fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a
circumstantial report about the debate"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "circumstantial":
absolute, accessory, accidental, accompanying, accurate,
additional, adducible, admissible, ado, adscititious, adventitious,
afloat, afoot, aleatory, appurtenant, ascititious, attestative,
attestive, authentic, auxiliary, based on, blow-by-blow, casual,
certain, chance, close, collateral, complete, conclusive,
conditional, contingent, convincing, cumulative, current, damning,
decisive, deduced, detailed, determinative, documentary,
documented, doing, eventuating, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte,
exact, explicit, extra, extraneous, eye-witness, factual, final,
firsthand, fortuitous, founded on, full, going on, grounded on,
happening, hearsay, implicative, implicit, implied, in hand,
in the wind, incidental, incontrovertible, indicative, indirect,
indisputable, inessential, inferential, inferred, interpretive,
irrefutable, irresistible, itemized, material, minute, nice,
nonessential, nuncupative, occasional, occurring, on, on foot,
ongoing, overwhelming, particular, particularized, passing,
precise, presumable, presumed, presumptive, prevailing, prevalent,
probative, provisional, reliable, replete, resultant, secondary,
significant, specific, strict, subsidiary, suggestive, superadded,
superfluous, supervenient, supplemental, supplementary, sure,
symptomatic, taking place, telling, thorough, under way,
unessential, unimportant, valid, weighty