conjectural

How To Use conjectural In A Sentence

• theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
• The vignettes that follow are conjectural, but they may suggest ways in which his life as we know it found its way into his art.
• Another principle of textual criticism which, thankfully, is not practised as frequently as it once was, is 'conjectural emendation'.
• Our ship's position in this waste of storm and sea is conjectural. CHAPTER XXXV
• Certainly, where the evidence in question is equivocal, in the sense of ambiguous and uncertain and conjectural in nature, the probative force is of such diminished significance as to be valueless.
• 'conjectural' history, Ricardo did not mean to state a historical fact. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
• Altered estrogen receptor sensitivity is another possible abnormality, but like the estrogen-androgen imbalance suggestion, it is completely conjectural.
• Yet, it does not explain why its proponents don't believe in unicorns, leprechauns or other such conjectural entities, all of which also lie outside the imagined boundaries of science.
• The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me and that must be owned to be purely conjectural, is that within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments, a crasis which elsewhere occurs only sporadically. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• That a conjectural critick should often be mistaken, cannot be wonderful, either to others or himself, if it be considered that in his art there is no system, no principal and axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions. Preface to Shakespeare