approximative
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As we remarked before, these figures and valuations, which are sufficiently approximative of accuracy for any useful purpose, will take public men and economists, both here and in Spain, by surprise.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
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
Answer:—No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximative truths of the scientific hypotheses.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
But a very probable approximative one can be arrived at, thanks to a clue supplied by the same Nabonidus, last King of Babylon, who settled the Sargon question for us so unexpectedly.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
This process is but approximative, and some practice is necessary before the operator succeeds in getting uniform results from the same series of specimens.
