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Casuistical

Casuistic \Cas`u*is"tic\, Casuistical \Cas`u*is"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking.

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casuistical

a. casuistic

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casuistical
  1. adj. of or relating to or practicing casuistry; "overly subtle casuistic reasoning" [syn: casuistic]

  2. of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems [syn: casuistic]

Usage examples of "casuistical".

At the same time, if ever that continental vice should attack our national character, we have two well-known essays in our ethical and casuistical literature that may with perfect safety be pitted against anything that either France or Italy has produced.

He was a zealous high-church man and royalist, and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart, though he reconciled himself, by casuistical arguments of expediency and necessity, to take the oaths imposed by the prevailing power.

The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above.

Abbott may accept my congratulations upon having achieved the most ingenious and masterful exhibition of casuistical legerdemain that it has ever been my fortune to encounter in my readings in the literatures of some thirty centuries and seven different languages.