- a variation of casuistic.
casuistical
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They were, no doubt, often furnished to him by Nicole or Arnauld, who hunted them through the immense volumes of casuistical divinity in which they were contained.
From Pascal by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
His characters, men and women, act not through blind, instinctive passion, but with deliberate and intelligent force; they reason, and too often with casuistical subtlety, about their emotions.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
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
Away toward Englewood hastened Mr. Middleton, reasoning with himself in a somewhat casuistical manner.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
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 John Trusler
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