casuistical

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In such a number of casuistical writers, it may be imagined, that some have erred.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

So they developed a joyful lot of casuistical distinctions as to which kind of oaths were binding and which didn't count.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter

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

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

They become abominably shrewd in a degrading, casuistical strict-constructionism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various