casuistical

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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

You see, Fossbrooke, what a casuistical companion I've given you.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

And other countries, accustomed to regard England—the Pecksniff among nations—as a perfect model of political wisdom, swallowed half the anomaly, and all the casuistical reasoning that was supposed to justify it, without a murmur.

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant

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 Addams, Jane

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