approximative

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Rosamond became serious too, and slightly meditative; in fact, she was going through many intricacies of lace-edging and hosiery and petticoat-tucking, in order to give an answer that would at least be approximative.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

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 Kingsley, Charles

On the one hand, it is a record of the exact determination and approximative analysis of the electric phenomena presented by living beings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 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.

Instances of the alternation, either total or approximative, of these principles are many and familiar.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various