circumstantiate

English

Etymology

Blend of circumstantial +‎ -ate

Verb

circumstantiate (third-person singular simple present circumstantiates, present participle circumstantiating, simple past and past participle circumstantiated)

1. To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
   • 1661, State Trials:

     Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.

2. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
   • 1655, John Bramhall, Vindication of True Liberty:

     If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.

Translations

to give out circumstantial evidence

• Portuguese: circunstanciar

to place in particular circumstances