ppl. a. [f. CIRCUMSTANCE sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Placed or set in certain circumstances, conditions or relations; situated, conditioned.
1611. Cotgr., Circonstancié, circumstanced.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems, To C’tess. Bedford. And such as they are circumstanc’d, they bee.
c. 1725. Swift, Consid. Wood’s Coin. As this Case stands Circumstanced, it is a great question.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 6. A young person, so circumstanced.
1824. L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 259. Nouns thus circumstanced are said to be in apposition to each other.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 12 Sept., 7/2. The succour of the better circumstanced, the wealthy, and the well-to-do.
† b. Subject to, or governed by, circumstances.
1604. Shaks., Oth., III. iv. 201. ’Tis very good: I must be circumstanc’d.
2. Supported by circumstances or details, circumstantiated.
1861. Bp. Fitzgerald, Aids to Faith, ii. 75. The … best circumstanced facts upon which the claims of Revelation rest.
