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Definition of Casuistical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or practicing casuistry. "Overly subtle casuistic reasoning"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems.

Definition of Casuistical

1. Adjective. casuistic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Casuistical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Casuistical

casualized casualizes casualizing casuall casually casualness casualnesses casuals casualties casualty

casualwear casuarina casuarinas casuist casuistic casuistical (current term) casuistically casuistics casuistries casuistry

casuists casus casus belli casus foederis caswellsilverite cat's-claw cat's-ear cat's-eye cat's-eye pupil cat's-eye syndrome

Literary usage of Casuistical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1829)
"of pious persons, the lecturers are ap- LECTURES, MORNING,' certain i pointed by the founders, without any casuistical lectures, which were preach- ..."

2. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1887)
"We meet here a concourse of volumes occupying no small space in old libraries, — the writings of the casuistical casuists, chiefly within the Romish Church. ..."

3. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"His Ability in casuistical Divinity. In the afternoon Dr. Cornelius Burgess, as speaker for hi.s party, made a vehement invective against deans and chapters ..."

4. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"... and its casuistical decisions by the various experience, social, political, and psychological, with which times and places are ever supplying it." 3. ..."

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