rare. [n. of action f. prec. vb.: see -ATION.] The action of circumstantiating.
1841. De Quincey, Homer, Wks. 1857, VI. 384. By inventing such little circumstantiations of any character or incident, as seem, by their apparent inertness of effect, to verify themselves.
1887. Stevenson, Mem. & Portraits, 288. The building up and circumstantiation of this boyish dream.
