circumstantial

Definition of circumstantial in English English dictionary: Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial; Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential; Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion; Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular
Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - is highly circumstantial, taking twenty-two pages of text.; {a} particular, minute, accidental; fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a circumstantial report about the debate"; Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion; Incidental; relating to, but not essential; fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a circumstantial report about the debate; {s} depending on circumstance, pertaining to circumstance; Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it. Fast work by the police in Birmingham had started producing circumstantial evidence; Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents
circumstantial evidence: Evidence not bearing directly on the fact in dispute but on various attendant circumstances from which the judge or jury might infer the occurrence of the fact in dispute. In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a smoking pistol, the evidence is circumstantial, since the person may merely be a bystander who picked up the weapon after the killer dropped it. The popular notion that one cannot be convicted on circumstantial evidence is false. Most criminal convictions are based, at least in part, on circumstantial evidence that sufficiently links criminal and crime
circumstantial evidence: evidence which shows a relation to other evidence and not directly to the crime itself
circumstantial evidence: evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute
circumstantially: {a} minutely, exactly, really
circumstantially: so far as the circumstances are concerned; "the account was circumstantially accurate" according to circumstances; "he was convicted circumstantially
circumstantially: In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally
circumstantially: regarding circumstance
circumstantially: so far as the circumstances are concerned; "the account was circumstantially accurate"
circumstantially: according to circumstances; "he was convicted circumstantially
circumstantially: In every circumstance or particular; minutely
circumstantially: in a circumstantial manner
circumstantially: in a circumstantial manner, incidentally