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

From this point of view the knowledge of matter that our perception on one hand and science on the other give to us appears, no doubt, as approximative, but not as relative.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

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

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