casuistic
adjective
casuistical
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a variation of
casuistic.
Example Sentences
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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
On the assumption that he was responsible for Glenelg's benevolent view of Canadian local rights, one might attribute something of Lord John Russell's over logical and casuistical declarations concerning responsible government to Buller's "Mr. Mother-country."
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
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 Max Duncker
They become abominably shrewd in a degrading, casuistical strict-constructionism.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
