Circumstanced
['sə:kəmstənst]
Definition
(p. a.) Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
(p. a.) Governed by events or circumstances.
Typist: Ted
Examples
- But I am painfully circumstanced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Other girls, differently reared and differently circumstanced altogether, might wonder at what I say or may do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I accept the sermon, frown, sneer, and laugh; perhaps you are all right: and perhaps, circumstanced like meyou would have been, like me, wrong. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I should not think so if I were circumstanced as you are. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Scotland and Ireland are differently circumstanced. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As the interest of nations so differently circumstanced is very different, so is likewise the common character of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Thus circumstanced, they landed at Alexandria from our ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And how can one who is thus circumstanced ever become a philosopher? Plato. The Republic.
- She is awkwardly circumstanced. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Ted