circumstant

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adjective

Standing or placed around; surrounding.

OriginLatin circumstāns →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivecircumstant (comparative more circumstant, superlative most circumstant)

comparative more circumstant · superlative most circumstant

  1. archaicStanding 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 Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC
nouncircumstant (plural circumstants)

plural circumstants

  1. grammarAn adjunct.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
adjunct

Origin

  1. Latincircumstāns
  2. Englishcircumstant

From Latin circumstāns, present participle of circumstō.

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APA

circumstant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumstant

MLA

“circumstant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumstant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circumstant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumstant.

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