conjectural

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Conjectural nuclear or environmental apocalypse flickers just over the horizon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 17, 2018

Conjectural emendations were offered by Capellus in the 17th, and by scholars such as C.F.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

To this time belongs a curious Conjectural Biography, a pretty idyl of an ideal courtship and marriage as his fancy now painted it for himself.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Conjectural Criticism was evidently practised largely: and almost with as little felicity as when Bentley held the pen.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

Conjectural meaning to point out some one in the audience, as the marionettes often did.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright