How To Use Conjectural In A Sentence
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theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
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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.
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Another principle of textual criticism which, thankfully, is not practised as frequently as it once was, is 'conjectural emendation'.
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Our ship's position in this waste of storm and sea is conjectural.
CHAPTER XXXV
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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.
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'conjectural' history, Ricardo did not mean to state a historical fact.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
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Altered estrogen receptor sensitivity is another possible abnormality, but like the estrogen-androgen imbalance suggestion, it is completely conjectural.
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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.
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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
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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
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However, selecting the appropriate conception with which to colligate the data is not conjectural (1858b, p. 78).
William Whewell
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This is a conjectural rough-draft reconstruction of Manutuke II's end wall with five "stemmed" or "ribbed" manaia panels.
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B. 's conjectural emendation, "recuse" for "secure," but that, unless my memory and Ayscough are both deceptive, the word "recuse" is nowhere to be found in Shakspeare; nor, as far as I know, in any dramatist of the age.
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Ireland to Caledonia, is built on a conjectural supplement to the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Phillipson devotes a "conjectural" chapter to reconstructing lectures on jurisprudence that Smith may or may not have delivered in Edinburgh in the winter of 1750-51.
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
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The foregoing is conjectural, and is intended more to suggest an approach to establishing action on behalf of the future than to prescribe specifics.
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The thesis brings to bear conjectural variation to unify the classical oligopoly models and open out that the differences of the models are only the dissimilarities of conjectural variation range.
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Although this sort of analogy to herd-living, open-country ungulates will always be somewhat conjectural, it is far from being completely speculative.
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The defendant says the elements of the loss must be established with reasonable certainty, and must not be speculative or conjectural.
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Already we can see how such advances have brought about a watershed in conjectural modeling in humanistic fields such as art conservation.
Introduction
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OK and conjectural , the number that the undergraduate plays game will be more.
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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.
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All the rest, from gossip to gospel, remains conjectural-unproved belief.
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The defendant says the elements of the loss must be established with reasonable certainty, and must not be speculative or conjectural.
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To place a monetary value on the prevention of an epidemic is largely conjectural.
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A conjectural science, which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events by the situation and different aspects of the heavenly bodies.
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It is their reliance on conjectural statements based on outward similarities that mars the book as a whole.
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But though the mesocosms may shed light on the fate of the pteropods, the outlook for the salmon will remain conjectural.
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I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
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Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural.
Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
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Her inspiring words were the only remnants other than my conjectural thoughts that I allowed to follow my every flight.
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Citing the findings of previous interpreters could also be a way of letting readers know that a translation was itself a conjectural reconstruction open to refutation.
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When there is a dispute as to the fact, since the cause is confirmed by conjectures, it is called a conjectural statement.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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Therefore here is the deficience which I find, that physicians have not, partly out of their own practice, partly out of the constant probations reported in books, and partly out of the traditions of empirics, set down and delivered over certain experimental medicines for the cure of particular diseases, besides their own conjectural and magistral descriptions.
The Advancement of Learning
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How much farther it might have run is conjectural; for, after one big game, he never played again.
THE FAITH OF MEN
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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.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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Prying apart the text, he located discrepancies between the author's conjectural inferences and the evidence actually offered in support of those inferences.
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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
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Fears of conjectural health risk from the pesticides themselves, as well as environmental concerns, would have swamped the valid arguments for the employment of such techniques.
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Despite increased understanding of the nature of the disease in general, the factors that contribute to symptomatic destabilization are little studied and much remains conjectural.
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It is preoccupied with hypothetical origins and conjectural future ends.
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With a tiger-like roar of fury, the stoker charged, and on the engineer's dodging conjecturally aside, fell heavily over the parish boundary-stone.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Gone are the days when scientists could look at the state as a bottomless pit of resources for often conjectural studies.
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Most of these terms are already in print; almost all should be self-revealing; a few are conjectural.
The Scientist
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The structure of the hind foot is entirely conjectural, as only a few isolated metatarsals have been found in association with Alamosaurus remains.
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Watson and Crick were determined to try to build a conjectural model of the structure of DNA.
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I tried the theme again before I abandoned it, and was so fortunate as to get him to admit a degree of improvement such as led to his desiring to recall his conjectural judgment on my possibilities as a sonnet-writer, but as the letters in which he characterises the advance are neither so terse in criticism, nor so interesting from the exposition of principles, as the one quoted, I pass them by.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Everything else - that is, the actual character of the external world and of our relationship to it - must remain conjectural or hypothetical, though some hypotheses are better than others.
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Address your fears with conjectural theory and speculation.
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The analytic or resolutive procedure is merely suggestive or conjectural.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Some of the stages of the Earth's development are purely conjectural.
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However, architect William Burges admitted that the towers' conical roofs were "utterly conjectural".
Victorian and Edwardian buildings: examples from the era
