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v. - Give evidence that tends to prove a fact in issue by proving other events which afford a basis for a reasonable inference by the jury or court of the occurrence of the fact in issue

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  • Verb (used with object), : Documents circumstantiated her evidence. ,He circumstantiated the accident
  • Nor is he more just, I think, against Tasso's Episodes, which he blames as not proper to circumstantiate his principal Action, not entring into the Causes and Effects...
  • We would have our eyes upon that too, so to circumstantiate all our duties, as they may have least offence in them, and be exposed to least obloquy of men, 1 Pet. ii.
  • In many cases, to which, from their circumstantiate nature, neither the written nor the consuetudinary law is directly appli - cable, these are the Responsa Prudentum...
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