approximative

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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.

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

In 1817 a new enumeration was substituted for the approximative estimates attempted in 1811.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

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

Answer:—No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximative truths of the scientific hypotheses.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various