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n. A condition or fact attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor.

n. A condition or fact that determines or must be considered in the determining of a course of action.

n. The sum of determining factors beyond willful control. Often used in the plural: a victim of circumstance; work that will begin on Monday if circumstances permit.

n. Financial status or means: "Prior came of a good family, much reduced in circumstances” ( George Sherburn).

n. Detail accompanying or surrounding an event, as in a narrative or series of events.

n. Formal display; ceremony: the pomp and circumstance of a coronation.

n. A particular incident or occurrence: Your arrival was a fortunate circumstance. See Synonyms at occurrence.

v. To place in particular circumstances or conditions; situate.

idiom. under no circumstances In no case; never.

idiom. under Given these conditions; such being the case.

n. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

n. An event; a fact; a particular incident.

n. Circumlocution; detail.

n. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

v. To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.

n. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

n. An event; a fact; a particular incident.

n. Circumlocution; detail.

n. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

v. To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

n. A fact related to another fact and modifying or throwing light upon its meaning, significance, importance, etc., without affecting its essential nature; something attending, appendant, or relative; something incidental; an accidental or unessential accompaniment; especially, some fact which gives rise to a certain presumption or tends to afford evidence.

n. A particular or detail; a matter of small consequence: as, that is a mere circumstance compared to what followed.

n. Collectively, detail; minuteness; specification of particulars.

n. A ceremonious accompaniment; a formality required by law or custom; more specifically, in a concrete sense, adjuncts of pomp and ceremony; ceremonies; display.

n. The surroundings, rarely of a thing, generally of a person; existing condition or state of things; facts external to a person considered as helping or, more especially, as hindering his designs, or as inducing him to act in a certain way; predicament, unforeseen or unprovided for; a person's worldly estate, or condition of wealth or poverty; fortune; means: generally in the plural.

n. Event; occurrence; incident.

To place in a particular situation or condition with regard to attending facts or incidents: only in the past participle: as, he was so circumstanced that he could not accept.

To control or guide by circumstances: only in the following passage.

To furnish or dress out with incidents and details; add circumstances to.

n. information that should be kept in mind when making a decision

n. the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

n. a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity

n. formal ceremony about important occasions

"Another circumstance is the "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell, sometimes not shelved by bookstores or libraries in their SF sections; of course, the book is about first contact with aliens and travel to an alien planet, it might be Spec."

ceremonial    observance    ceremonial occasion    ceremony   

occurrence    state    formality    affair    easy circumstances    narrow circumstances    not a circumstance to   

under no circumstance    under the circumstances   

position    detail    fact    condition    event    item    occurrence    situation    incident    circumlocution   

situation    condition    fact    incident    consequence    experience    aspect    difficulty    relation    unit