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circumstant

circumstant adjective: standing or placed around; surrounding.

Adjective

circumstant (comparative more circumstant, superlative most circumstant)

  1. (archaic) Standing or placed around; surrounding.
    • And then he will perceive the reason why light is darted from the body of the sun with that incredible celerity wherewith its beams fly to visit the remotest parts of the world, and how of necessity it gives motion to all circumstant bodies […]1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of...

Noun

circumstant (plural circumstants)

  1. An adjunct.

Forms of circumstant

Adjective
comparativemore circumstant
superlativemost circumstant
Noun
pluralcircumstants

Origin of circumstant

From Latin circumstāns, present participle of circumstō.

Questions about circumstant

What does circumstant mean?
Circumstant means standing or placed around; surrounding.
What part of speech is circumstant?
Circumstant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near circumstant in the dictionary

  1. circumsporozoite
  2. circumstance
  3. circumstanced
  4. circumstances
  5. circumstancing
  6. circumstant
  7. circumstantiable
  8. circumstantial
  9. circumstantial evidence
  10. circumstantialities
  11. circumstantiality

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