casuistical

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These two equalised bundles of hay might have held in suspense the casuistical ass of Sterne, till he had died from want of a motive to choose either.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

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

Instead of exercising their power of reason they exert their powers of sophistry, and divide and subdivide every subject with such casuistical minuteness, that those who are not convinced, are almost invariably confounded.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

But certain casuistical questions arise in connection with this command.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

Medieval economics was little more than a casuistical system of elaborate and somewhat artificial rules of conduct.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various