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1 : consisting of, relating to, or depending on circumstances
2 : containing full details

Example sentence:
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." (Henry David Thoreau, Journal)

Etymology:
The earliest known use of "circumstantial" occurs in Shakespeare's 1600 comedy As You Like It, in which a character named Touchstone discusses lies, including one type he names "the Lie Circumstantial." He says "I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we measur'd swords and parted." Touchstone uses "circumstantial" as the opposite of "direct"—pretty much the way the word is used in the law of evidence today. "Circumstantial" was created from the noun "circumstance," which derives from the Latin "circumstare," meaning "to stand around."