Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of circumstance
- in compoundsnot comparableIn the specified situation or circumstances.
Fortunately, I come from a family that was well circumstanced.
1 more example
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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