casuistical

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.

Discuss the following casuistical case: A child is lying on the railroad track and a locomotive is rapidly approaching.

The tone is all the tone of cultivated society, the appeal is an appeal to the refined, casuistical intelligence.

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.

He is an elderly man with a kind manner; type of the eighteenth century casuistical parson.