casuistical

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If," he writes, "in a poem by no means ascertained to be my production there appears a disagreeable, casuistical, and by no means respectable female pedant, it is set down for my wife.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

It is a theory and practice of purity, on a level with the analogous rules in the laws of Manu, and in some points even more subtle and casuistical.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Now I must stop without satisfactorily answering your question, without entering into any casuistical questions concerning conformity such as you suggest.

From Letters to His Friends by Robinson, Forbes

Hence it is that he is copied even in the casual mistakes he made; and all the casuistical works recently published have inserted in their pages those mistakes.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by

Defective knowledge and illogical or casuistical argument alone render any other conclusion possible.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir