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Describe vs Circumstantiate - What's the difference?

describe | circumstantiate |

As verbs the difference between describe and circumstantiate

is that describe is to represent in words while circumstantiate is to describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence.

describe

English

Verb

(describ)
  • (label) To represent in words.
  • * November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
    • Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
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  • (label) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  • * 1826 , (James Fenimore Cooper), (The Last of the Mohicans)
    • Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flourishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans.
  • To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  • To reveal a new species by scientifically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • (label) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
  • * Bible, (w) xviii. 9
    • Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.

    Synonyms

    * (to represent in words) portray, betell, depict, report * (to represent in writing) bewrite

    Related terms

    * describable * description * descriptive * descriptivism * descriptivist * descriptor * scribe

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    circumstantiate

    English

    Verb

    (circumstantiat)
  • To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
    • Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. — State Trials (1661).
  • To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
    • If the act were otherwise circumstantiated , it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. — Bramhall.