casuistical
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It has sometimes been thought of as an outward law, sometimes as an inward disposition; and each of these rival conceptions has developed a casuistical method of its own.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Before I had begun the examination, I deemed myself a most candid, truth-observing, frank witness, and now I discovered that I was casuistical and "dodgy" as an Old Bailey lawyer.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
On the assumption that he was responsible for Glenelg's benevolent view of Canadian local rights, one might attribute something of Lord John Russell's over logical and casuistical declarations concerning responsible government to Buller's "Mr. Mother-country."
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
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 Jane Addams
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
