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- verb Present participle of
circumstantiate .
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The causes that _have_ existed for war are the causes that _will_ exist; or, at least, they are the same under modifications that will simply vary the rule, as our law cases in the courts are every day circumstantiating the particular statute concerned.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The causes that _have_ existed for war are the causes that _will_ exist; or, at least, they are the same under modifications that will simply vary the rule, as our law cases in the courts are every day circumstantiating the particular statute concerned.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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And this method of circumstantiating Matters of Fact into Truth or
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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was still preserved in the library of an English Catholic family; circumstantiating his needless falsehood by other most superfluous details.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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