Circumstance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Circumlocution; detail.

II. Circumstance ·noun An event; a fact; a particular incident.

III. Circumstance ·vt To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

IV. Circumstance ·noun Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

V. Circumstance ·noun That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.