casuistical

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Dr. Johnson, who, if any one, has the reputation of being a sturdy moralist, thus speaks: "We talked," says Boswell, "of the casuistical question—whether it was allowable at any time to depart from truth."

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

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 Saintsbury, George

But certain casuistical questions arise in connection with this command.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

If," he writes, "in a poem by no means ascertained to be my production there appears a disagreeable, casuistical, and by no means respectable female pedant, it is set down for my wife.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

It needs hardly to be pointed out how much a casuistical discussion of this sort tends to stimulate interest in moral problems, and to quicken the moral judgment.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix