"Inferential" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the close of his second period, which ended with the sixteenth century. His third period opens with "Hamlet," which was written about the year 1600. 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. We are able to determine with an approach to certainty about what time most of his plays were written; but we cannot fix their date exactly. Nor is it of very great importance that we should do so. There are some people who can fret themselves ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... here made by Mr. Furness to the effect that his knowledge of the substitution here spoken of was inferential, but that at another period of the seance he did distinctly see the ...
— Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University • The Seybert Commission
... month, whilst the mean of the two numbers gives us 1,780, and 1,780 lunar years is 1,727 solar years with extreme precision. But since these are not given directly in the Book of Daniel, and are only inferential from his numbers, there seems no need ...
— The Astronomy of the Bible - An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References - of Holy Scripture • E. Walter Maunder
... irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable; necessary. categorical, decisive, crucial. demonstrated &c v.; proven; unconfuted^, unanswered, unrefuted^; evident &c 474. deducible, consequential, consectary^, inferential, following. [demonstrated to one's satisfaction] convincing, cogent, persuasive (believable) 484. Adv. of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course; necessarily, of necessity. Phr. probatum est [Lat.]; there is nothing more to be said; quod est ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
