Attending; relating to; but not essential.

Consisting in or pertaining to circumstances, or to particular incidents.

Incidental; casual.

Abounding with circumstances, or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular; as a circumstantial account or recital .

In law, circumstantial evidence is that which is obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption.

Circumstantials, in the plural, are things incident to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to essentials; as the circumstantials of religion.