Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship […] and what is merely circumstantial.
Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.
It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
My Unkle's account is more circumstantial I must confess—but I believe mine is the true one for all that.
Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
the circumstantials of religion
From Latin circumstantia + English -al, equivalent to circumstance + -ial.
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An adjunct or circumstant.