CIRCUMSTANTIAL, adjective 1. Attending; relating to; but not essential. 2. Consisting in or pertaining to circumstances, or to particular incidents. 3. Incidental; casual. 4. Abounding with circumstances, or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular; as a circumstantial account or recital. 5. In law, circumstantial evidence is that which is obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. CIRCUMSTANTIAL, noun Circumstantials, in the plural, are things incident to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to essentials; as the circumstantials of religion.
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