Circumstance

1. v. t. To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
2. n. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
3. n. An event; a fact; a particular incident.
4. n. Circumlocution; detail.
5. n. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.