approximative
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No rational thinker hopes to discover more than some few primary actions of law, and some approximative theory of growth.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
Facts, when he goes on to verify his theories, will leave him with a very few primary actions of law, a very faint approximative theory; because his theories, in plain English, will not work.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
The riddle of the universe, like less important riddles, is unravelled only by approximative trials, and the most brilliant discoverers have usually been the bravest guessers.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
Finally, in ancient times notes were not defined as they are to-day and their value was approximative only.
From On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Camille Saint-Saëns
And its escape is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, nor any contagium of scarlet-fever, nor any contagium of smallpox had arisen spontaneously within its limits.'
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
