circumstant

From Latin circumstāns, present participle of circumstō.

circumstant (comparative more circumstant, superlative most circumstant)

1. (archaic) Standing or placed around; surrounding.
   • 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:

     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 […]

circumstant (plural circumstants)

1. (grammar) An adjunct.

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

circumstant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of circumstō