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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section I. Existence |
| 4. Modal Existence |
| Relative |
| 8. Circumstance. |
| NOUN: | CIRCUMSTANCE, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point; terms; régime [F.]; footing, standing, status. OCCASION, juncture, conjuncture; contingency (event) [See Eventuality]. PREDICAMENT; emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, plight, push; occurrence; turning point. BEARINGS, how the land lies. |
| ADJECTIVE: | CIRCUMSTANTIAL; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious (extrinsic) [See Extrinsicality]; limitative. DETAILED, minute, full, fussy. |
| ADVERB: | THUS, in such wise; in or under the circumstances &c. n.; in or under the conditions [See State]. ACCORDINGLY; that being the case; such being the case; that being so; sith [obs. or archaic], sithen [obs.], since, seeing that. as matters stand; as things go, as times go. CONDITIONALLY, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless, without. according to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be; as the case may be, as the wind blows; pro re natâ [L.]. |
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