circumsolar (serkumsolar)

[L. circum, around, + sol, sun, + -ars.] Surrounding the sun; situated about the sun. It has not been proved, however, that meteorites move in circumsolar orbits. Ure, Dict., I. 30. The intense illumination of the circumsolar region of our atmosphere masks, under ordinary circumstances, the red prominences. They are quenched, as it were, by exce of light. Tyndall , Light and Electricity, p. 83. IMG:content-0462.png:[blocks in formation] cir cum stan cia = Sp. circunstancia = It. circon stanzia, circostanzia, He that is truly dedicate to war Hath no self-love; nor he that loves himself Hath not e entially, but by circumstance , The name of valour. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 2. IMG:content-0463.png:[blocks in formation] Come, do not hunt, And labour so about for circumstance , To make him guilty, whom you have foredoomed. B. Jonson , Sejanus, iii. 1. They beheld me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iii. 2. Inward e ence and outward circumstances . J. Caird. 2. A particular or detail; a matter of small consequence: as, that is a mere circumstance compared to what followed. To use too many circumstances ere one come to the matBacon, Of Discourse. ter is wearisome. circumstant 3. Collectively, detail; minutene ; specification of particulars. With circumstance and oaths, so to deny This chain. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. What need this circumstance? pray you, be direct. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 1. With all circumstance they tell us when and who first set foot upon this island. Milton. 4. A ceremonious accompaniment; a formality required by law or custom; more specifically, in a concrete sense, adjuncts of pomp and ceremony; ceremonies; display. And it was wel don to hertis plesance, The Ausoys loged wel with all circumstance . Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2016. All quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Shak ., Othello, iii. 3. We set him vpon a rug, and then brought our Gouernour to him with Drums and Trumpets; where after some circumstances, for they vse few compliments, we treated of peace with them. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, II. 226. The aged Harper's soul awoke! Then would he sing achievements high, And circumstance of chivalry. Scott, L. of L. M., vi., Epilogue. 5. The surroundings, rarely of a thing, generally of a person; existing condition or state of things; facts external to a person considered as helping or, more especially, as hindering his designs, or as inducing him to act in a certain way; predicament, unforeseen or unprovided for; a person's worldly estate, or condition of wealth or poverty; fortune; means: generally in the plural. None but a virtuous man can hope well in all circum- stances. Bacon . Every man knows his own circumstances best. Steele, Tatler, No. 25. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. Young , Night Thoughts, ii. 91. I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse-borne away with every breath! Byron, Sardana pal us, iv. 1. Now, the time for seeing the young women of a Grecian city, all congregated under the happiest circumstances of display, was in their local festivals. De Quincey , Homer, i. His circumstances are more affluent than ever. Goldsmith, Vicar, iii. 6. Event; occurrence; incident. Conquerors weeping for new worlds, or the like circum stance in history. Add is on. The poet has gathered those circumstances which most terrify the imagination. Add is on , Spectator. Easy circumstances, moderate wealth. - Narrow circumstances, respectable poverty. Not a circum stance to, nothing comparison with. [U. S.] = Syn. 1. Incident, Occurrence, etc. See event.