Bible Dictionaries
Circumstance

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

(4):

(n.) Circumlocution; detail.

(5):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Circumstance'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/circumstance.html. 1828.