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Example sentences for "conjectural"

Lexicographically close words:
coniuge; coniugis; coniunction; coniunx; coniure; conjecturally; conjecture; conjectured; conjectures; conjecturing
  1. But this is as conjectural as our expectations of the future.

  2. And with this conjectural reflection the Maroon forsook the shadow under which he had been sheltering, and flitted forward along the path.

  3. I wonder what that can be for," said Cubina to himself, in a conjectural way.

  4. Her ladyship answered with kindness; but did not throw any light on the problem which exercised at once our memories, our skill in conjectural interpretation, and our sincere regrets.

  5. But conjectural criticism has always something to abate its confidence.

  6. In my own defense I can say that I know the highly conjectural nature of what I am doing.

  7. This conjectural science is divided into natural and judicial.

  8. For the credit of the profession, this conjectural opinion met with decided reprobation from other medical men.

  9. I am about to show, to all who indulge in conjectural criticism.

  10. I think we may safely appeal to all critics who occupy themselves much with conjectural criticism, and ask them if TIME does not frequently impair the complacency with which they regard their efforts on their first production.

  11. Nobody says that there were two beardless buffoons, yet there is just as much evidence for them as for the conjectural two sacred characters, with two sacred harlots, at the Sacaea.

  12. This conjectural explanation of the ceremony is confirmed by the tradition that the Roman Horatius was similarly obliged by his fellow-countrymen to pass under a yoke as a form of purification for the murder of his sister.

  13. It was not till after I had given this conjectural explanation of the "Sister's Beam" and the triumphal arch at Rome that I read the article of Mr. W.

  14. M207) This conjectural explanation of the ceremony has, since it was first put forward, been confirmed by the researches of Dr.

  15. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

  16. In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture.

  17. I could amuse the reader with numerous examples of conjectural arguments, which, fair at a distant view, vanish like a cloud on a near approach'.

  18. Even if the probability as to the Alexandrian origin of Wisdom were a certainty, and if the conjectural date A.

  19. This note is conjectural only, and is therefore offered with much diffidence.

  20. I have attempted a conjectural rendering of what the game might have been, by putting together the words of different versions.

  21. As no other version of the ballad has ever been discovered, no one knows just how many "conjectural emendations" Sir Walter made.

  22. Conjectural emendations were offered by Capellus in the 17th, and by scholars such as C.

  23. When no conjectural reading is given, the break is indicated by leaders.

  24. The letters or words in brackets are conjectural readings, the original being illegible or worn in many places.

  25. He gives, however, only a conjectural and unsatisfactory explanation of its use.

  26. He was one of the first who, leaving the old conjectural method of physical writers, struck into a new and more solid way of reasoning, grounded upon observations and mathematical principles.

  27. This idea is, as I have said, purely conjectural and fictitious, and is indeed likely to remain so; for the thing is not by its nature susceptible of proof, nor is it even possible to inquire into it.

  28. Hittorff would seem to be nearer the truth when, in his conjectural restoration of Temple R.

  29. But this supposition depends on a merely conjectural emendation of the text.

  30. The whole arrangement will be made abundantly clear from the above conjectural ground-plan of the ancient church, c.

  31. Thus would the conjectural vision of the great Genoese become only an explanation of the old prophecy of the second father of mankind.

  32. All things resolved themselves into facts, and they seldom wandered away into the fields of conjectural conclusions.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conjectural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.