circumstanced

English

Verb

circumstanced

1. simple past and past participle of circumstance

Adjective

circumstanced (not comparable)

1. (in combination) In the specified situation or circumstances.

   Fortunately, I come from a family that was well circumstanced.

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1987, Chapter XIV, p. 88,

     It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.

Derived terms

• uncircumstanced