Adjective : casuistic distinctions.    From Dictionary.com. 

To casuistical Berkeley they prefer the common sense of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

It was not in these terms that the casuistical authors speculated.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

The science which they founded and greatly developed was thoroughly casuistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

Even in the Calvinist fold, something like a casuistical approach made its appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

The reasoning that supports ventures like Sellafield has a distinctly casuistical warp.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mother Country': An Exchange] Reference

In divinity, practic, polemic, and casuistical, he excelled others, and was in all equal to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Dr Owen] Reference

Both facts stimulated the evolution of casuistical thinking, even in the earlier stages of Hebrew history.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

Donne's casuistical treatise was an early example of the liberalized Enlightenment attitudes of the 1700's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide] Reference

In its first stages (though, as we shall see, only in its first stages), the Reformation was decidedly anti - casuistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

Instead it persists, casting a casuistical spell on the rest of the novel, a "case" about which arguments might go on and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for God in Inglenook] Reference

Comte, very much where it did when Socrates ran amuck among the casuistical Quixotes of his day, and left the philosophic tilters of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

But in the application of laws casuistical practices and procedures were, and were seen to be, entirely justified, indeed, unavoidable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASUISTRY] Reference

He may be one of those sensible people who don't regard innocence as a protection against the more casuistical machinations of the police. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder Room]

Stuart, though he reconciled himself, by casuistical arguments of expediency and necessity, to take the oaths imposed by the prevailing power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

Hence the casuistical or other questions which arise out of the relations of friends have not often been considered seriously in modern times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysis; or Friendship] Reference

Now I must stop without satisfactorily answering your question, without entering into any casuistical questions concerning conformity such as you suggest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

Chiefly to this, — that philosophers have not always distinguished the theoretical and the casuistical uncertainty of morals from the practical certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philebus] Reference

‘Oh, I know you will work up all the casuistical excuses,’ said the other; ‘perhaps he was rather snappy with his wife; but he’s got the right on his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

Like casuistry in the old sense, this is a valuable thing; like casuistry in the old sense, it can, if not watched, degenerate into casuistical argument in the modern sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

The biggest casuistical dispute of all time was the dispute between the Jesuits (who were largely probabilists at the time) and the Jansenists (who were unanimously rigorists).    From Wordnik.com.  [Casuistry] Reference

Till late at night we were kept awake by the crazy Widads: Ao Samattar had proposed the casuistical question, “Is it lawful to pray upon a mountain when a plain is at hand?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Nothing complicated; nothing high-strung; nothing casuistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Fear] Reference

” To casuistical Berkeley they prefer the common sense of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

Now, having stated the case, let us review the casuistical apologies put forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference

But this is the true solution of that common casuistical question about duelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference

His name became a sort of proverb in connection with their casuistical system, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal] Reference

Defective knowledge and illogical or casuistical argument alone render any other conclusion possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

Away toward Englewood hastened Mr. Middleton, reasoning with himself in a somewhat casuistical manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton] Reference

I think it is making a melancholy, casuistical, ethical business out of what ought to be a natural process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Fire] Reference

Here was a casuistical proposition thrown at my head by the last person I should have suspected of doing so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference

But they are not aware that this whole inquiry is simply the machinery for determining a casuistical question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference

Now the necessary consequence of Taylor's scheme is a conscience-worrying, casuistical, monkish work-holiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] Reference

We have had occasion more than once in the course of this session to admire the casuistical skill of Her Majesty's Ministers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference

The ethical parts of Scripture were not to be construed like Acts of Parliament, or like the casuistical treatises of the schoolmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference

"Noa!" he repeated in a lower note; and then, while a sombre grin betokening idiotic enjoyment of his profound casuistical quibble worked at his jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference