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"Section C"

"I
will endeavor to describe with sufficient
circumstantiality." De Quincey.


Cir`cum*stan"tial*ly (?), adv.
1. In respect to circumstances; not
essentially; accidentally.


Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only
circumstantially different.

Glanvill.


2. In every circumstance or particular;
minutely.


To set down somewhat circumstantially, not
only the events, but the manner of my trials.

Boyle.


Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumstantiated (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Circumstantiating (?).]
[See Circumstantiating (&?;).]


1. To place in particular circumstances;
to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
[R.]


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

Bramhall.


2. To prove or confirm by circumstances;
to enter into details concerning.


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


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