Definition of circumstantial

• a. - Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
• a. - Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
• a. - Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
• n. - Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.