casuistical

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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 Gosse, Edmund

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

Hence it is that he is copied even in the casual mistakes he made; and all the casuistical works recently published have inserted in their pages those mistakes.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by

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

The very "masses" in whose behalf Scaevola was calling on his fellow-citizens to undergo these casuistical gymnastics soon cared more for Bellona and Isis than for all the gods of Numa together.

From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Carter, Jesse Benedict