approximative

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But individual communities are not therefore warranted in being content with proceeding to bear a testimony for it on a principle of approximative expediency.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

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 Tyndall, John

But here I will say that the division of his work into periods, and the assignment of his plays to certain years, is only inferential and approximative.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

And we also are without the means for any, not to say accurate, but fair approximative estimate of the proportion of this expenditure which may be incurred for, and duly chargeable against the colonies.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

These figures must be considered as only approximative, since nothing is more difficult than to estimate the nutritive qualities of different aliments.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.