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Circumstantially   /sˌərkəmstˈæntʃəli/  /sˌərkəmstˈænʃəli/   Listen
Circumstantially

adverb
1.
According to circumstances.
2.
Insofar as the circumstances are concerned.
3.
In minute detail.  Synonym: minutely.
4.
Without advance planning.  Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, unexpectedly.






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"Circumstantially" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gerard, quick! [As GERARD enters, TRESHAM secures the door.] Now speak! or, wait— I'll bid you speak directly. [Seats himself.] Now repeat Firmly and circumstantially the tale You just now told me; it eludes me; either I did not listen, or the half is gone Away from me. How long have you lived here? Here in my house, your father kept ...
— A Blot In The 'Scutcheon • Robert Browning

... impossible for any man, whose intelligence had been trained by years of experience in this and other courts, and whose daily duty it is to discriminate as to the credibility of testimony, to disbelieve the history so circumstantially detailed in the box by Miss Smithers (Sensation). I watched her demeanour both under examination and cross-examination very closely indeed, and I am convinced that she was telling the absolute truth so far ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard

... individual, and in the other two or more forms appear on a different mycelium, on a different part of the same plant, or on a matrix wholly distinct and different; in the latter case the connection being attested or suspected circumstantially, in the former proved by the method suggested by De Bary. It will at once be conceded that in cases where actual growth and development substantiate the facts the polymorphy is undoubted, whilst in the other series it can at best be little ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... execution of an insurrection against the present government." This objection was just: But for that very reason it did not frighten anybody. An overwhelming majority of the Soviet was aware of the necessity of overthrowing the coalition power. The more circumstantially the Mensheviks and S. R.'s demonstrated that the Military Revolutionary Committee would inevitably turn into an organ of insurrection, the greater the eagerness with which the Petrograd Soviet supported ...
— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky

... fruits a la glace, du the, du caffe, des biscuits, et force hot-rolls."—This is not the beginning of a letter to you, but of one that I might suppose sets out to-night for Paris, or rather, which I do not suppose will set out thither; for though the narrative is circumstantially true, I don't believe the actors were pleased enough with the scene, to give so ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... In order to show circumstantially the progress of colonization, by following Oglethorpe with his new and large accession of emigrants and military forces to their destined places of settlement on the borders of the Alatamaha and the southern islands, all mention of the reception and treatment of ...
— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris

... circumstantially narrated, that not a stop so short as a comma occurred in more than an hour, while I was civilly waiting for a full period. Mr. Cumberland expressed his sorrow at what had happened at Drury-lane, and said that, if he had had the honour of knowing you sufficiently, he would have told ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... case, given very circumstantially, a witness tells how a party of wounded British soldiers were left in a chalk pit, all very badly hurt, and quite unable to make resistance. One of them, an officer, held up his handkerchief as a white ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various



Words linked to "Circumstantially" :   accidentally, unexpectedly, minutely, by chance, deliberately, circumstantial



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