circumstanced

English

Verb

circumstanced

  1. simple past tense and past participle of circumstance

Adjective

circumstanced (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) In the specified situation or circumstances.
    • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1987, Chapter XIV, p. 88,
      It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.
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