- a variation of casuistic.
casuistical
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The tone is all the tone of cultivated society, the appeal is an appeal to the refined, casuistical intelligence.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Real abilities were indeed possessed by a Duns Scotus and a few others; but these were lost in the most trifling subtleties of a sophistry which they dignified with the name of casuistical divinity.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Indeed, he gave an instance of this reverence which might serve as a pretty text for a casuistical discussion.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
The very "masses" in whose behalf Scaevola was calling on his fellow-citizens to undergo these casuistical gymnastics soon cared more for Bellona and Isis than for all the gods of Numa together.
From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Jesse Benedict Carter
It has sometimes been thought of as an outward law, sometimes as an inward disposition; and each of these rival conceptions has developed a casuistical method of its own.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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