circumstancing

noun

1. a fact or event accompanying another, either incidentally or as an essential condition or determining factor: circumstances alter cases
2. any happening or fact; event
3. conditions surrounding and affecting a person, esp. financial conditions: in comfortable circumstances
4. chance; luck: circumstance would have it so
5. ceremony; show: pomp and circumstance
6. 1. accompanying or surrounding detail
   2. fullness of detail

Origin: OFr < L circumstantia, a standing around, condition < circumstare < circum, around + stare, stand

transitive verb circumstanced, circumstancing