casuistical
- a variation of casuistic.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He is an elderly man with a kind manner; type of the eighteenth century casuistical parson.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley
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
