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
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
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 John Cunningham
The reader can therefore procure from the statistics of these periods only an approximative idea of the values of crops and the wealth created by their passing into trade.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
If anything in this world can give you an approximative idea of this exquisitely perfumed movement, it is the dance for the piccolos in the Almée of Felicien David.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
