circumstant

English

Etymology

Latin circumstans.

Adjective

circumstant (comparative more circumstant, superlative most circumstant)

1. (archaic) Standing or placed around; surrounding.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:

     And then he will perceive the reason why light is darted from the body of the sun with that incredible celerity wherewith its beams fly to visit the remotest parts of the world, and how of necessity it gives motion to all circumstant bodies […]

Noun

circumstant (plural circumstants)

1. (grammar) An adjunct.

References

• “circumstant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

circumstant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of circumstō