Meaning of casuistic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules).
2. Overly subtle, hair-splitting.

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Examples

“1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?"”

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