Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CIR-CUM-STAN'TIAL
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CIR-CUM-STAN'TIAL, n.
Circumstantials, in the plural, are things incident to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to essentials; as, the circumstantials of religion. Addison.
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