casuistical

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Real abilities were indeed possessed by a Duns Scotus and a few others; but these were lost in the most trifling subtleties of a sophistry which they dignified with the name of casuistical divinity.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

I am not one of those who stake much on the casuistical application of ethical principles.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

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

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

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 Duncker, Max