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Definition of Circumstantially

1. Adverb. According to circumstances. "He was convicted circumstantially"

2. Adverb. Insofar as the circumstances are concerned. "The account was circumstantially accurate"

3. Adverb. In minute detail. "Our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses"

Definition of Circumstantially

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

Definition of Circumstantially

1. Adverb. in a circumstantial manner ¹

2. Adverb. regarding circumstance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumstantially

Literary usage of Circumstantially

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"The usual resort is to utterances which circumstantially indicate a specific state of mind causing them. To such a use, then, the Hearsay rule makes no ..."

2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"circumstantially told how the young patrician, Michèle Steno, having at a ducal reception insulted one of the ..."

3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"... but I do not see how any one can show the impropriety of the name that I have employed, merely from the fact that circumstantially the Apocalypse ..."

4. Criminal Trials by David Jardine (1835)
"... on account of his pardon, was recited and proved as circumstantially as if they had formed part of the charge in the indictment. ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"But if it tend even circumstantially to the proof of the issue, it lany, io Cox CC 97. And false testi- * mony concerning the signature to a delivery not« ..."

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