quodlibet
noun
a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
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They at length collected all these quodlibetical questions into enormous volumes, under the terrifying form, for those who have seen them, of Summaries of Divinity!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli