Word Definition

Circumstantial

  1. Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
  2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
  3. Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
  4. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.

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