Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to circumstance
Participle: circumstanced
Gerund: circumstancing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | circumstance |
| you | circumstance |
| he;she;it | circumstances |
| we | circumstance |
| you | circumstance |
| they | circumstance |
Perfect
| I | have circumstanced |
| you | have circumstanced |
| he;she;it | has circumstanced |
| we | have circumstanced |
| you | have circumstanced |
| they | have circumstanced |
Past
| I | circumstanced |
| you | circumstanced |
| he;she;it | circumstanced |
| we | circumstanced |
| you | circumstanced |
| they | circumstanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had circumstanced |
| you | had circumstanced |
| he;she;it | had circumstanced |
| we | had circumstanced |
| you | had circumstanced |
| they | had circumstanced |
Future
| I | will circumstance |
| you | will circumstance |
| he;she;it | will circumstance |
| we | will circumstance |
| you | will circumstance |
| they | will circumstance |
Future Perfect
| I | will have circumstanced |
| you | will have circumstanced |
| he;she;it | will have circumstanced |
| we | will have circumstanced |
| you | will have circumstanced |
| they | will have circumstanced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | circumstance |
| you | circumstance |
| he;she;it | circumstance |
| we | circumstance |
| you | circumstance |
| they | circumstance |
Perfect
| I | have circumstanced |
| you | have circumstanced |
| he;she;it | have circumstanced |
| we | have circumstanced |
| you | have circumstanced |
| they | have circumstanced |
Imperfect
| I | circumstanced |
| you | circumstanced |
| he;she;it | circumstanced |
| we | circumstanced |
| you | circumstanced |
| they | circumstanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had circumstanced |
| you | had circumstanced |
| he;she;it | had circumstanced |
| we | had circumstanced |
| you | had circumstanced |
| they | had circumstanced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would circumstance |
| you | would circumstance |
| he;she;it | would circumstance |
| we | would circumstance |
| you | would circumstance |
| they | would circumstance |
Perfect
| I | would have circumstanced |
| you | would have circumstanced |
| he;she;it | would have circumstanced |
| we | would have circumstanced |
| you | would have circumstanced |
| they | would have circumstanced |
Imperative
| you | circumstance |
| we | Let's circumstance |
| you | circumstance |
Verbs conjugated like 'circumstance'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'circumstance'
circumduce,
circumference,
circumnutate,
circumrotate,
circumscribe,
circumstantiate,
circulate,
circumagitate,
circumcise,
circumcize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1225, "conditions surrounding and accompanying an event," from L. circumstantia "surrounding condition," neut. pl. of circumstans (gen. circumstantis), prp. of circumstare "stand around," from circum "around" + stare "to stand" from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Meaning "a person's surroundings, environment" is from c.1340. Obsolete sense of "formality about an important event" (c.1386) lingers in Shakespeare's phrase pomp and circumstance ("Othello" III, iii). Circumstantial evidence is from 1736.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
4. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
5. Latin circus
6. Latin circum
7. Latin circum-
8. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
12. Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti
13. Proto-Italic *staējō
14. Proto-Italic *staēō
15. Latin stō
16. Latin circumstō
17. Latin circumstāns
18. Latin circumstāntiaslbor.
19. Old French circonstanceder.
20. Middle English circumstaunce
21. English circumstance
22. From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.
Sample Sentences
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Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money. [1858, Anthony Trollope, “Matrimonial Prospects”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 184:]
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While also taxing Ferrein with the same motives, Diderot's account of his doings is much more circumstanced than La Mettrie's, and also much more amusing, thanks to the interpolation of the «bijoux» motif. [1949, Diderot Studies, volume 11, page 170:]