circumstanced

[ sur-kuhm-stanstor, especially British, -stuhnst ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.

adjective

1. being in a condition, or state, especially with respect to income and material welfare, as specified:

   They were well circumstanced.

Other Words From

• well-circum·stanced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of circumstanced¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; circumstance + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Indeed, I was not only so changed in the course of nature, but so differently dressed and so differently circumstanced, that it was not at all likely he could have known me without accidental help.

From Literature

The plunder had been startlingly circumstanced, but its issue had been all I could have hoped.

From Literature

“Thus were many of the nurses circumstanced,” Jones and Allen would note, “alone, until the patient died, then called away to another scene of distress, and thus have been a week or ten days left to do the best they could without sufficient rest, many of them having some of their dearest connexions sick at the time and suffering for want while their husband, wife, father, mother have been engaged in the service of the white people.”

From Literature

Circumstanced thus, my thoughts were not of the most acute, but moved with a bewildered sluggishness; and for some moments I stood outside in the dark of the yard, engaged in attempts to collect my wits before returning to my task.

From Literature

Dreary must be the life of a people so circumstanced. 

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