circumstantiate

English

Etymology

Blend of circumstantial +‎ -ate

Verb

circumstantiate (third-person singular simple present circumstantiates, present participle circumstantiating, simple past and past participle circumstantiated)

To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
- 1661, State Trials
  Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.
To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
- 1655, John Bramhall, Vindication of True Liberty
  If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.

Translations

to give out circumstantial evidence

Portuguese: circunstanciar

to place in particular circumstances