a. [f. prec. + -IC.] = next. (Often with a sinister application: see CASUISTRY.)
1660. Gauden, Brownrig, 208. All points and parts of Religion, Dogmatick, Polemick, Practick, Casuistick.
1816. Monthly Mag., XLII. 36. Diving into the weedy pool of casuistic argument.
1872. Tulloch, Ration. Theol., I. vi. 353. Those casuistic tendencies which gave complexion to his [Jeremy Taylors] theological culture.
1875. I. G. Smith, Dict. Chr. Antiq., s.v. Celibacy, The great casuistic Epistle [1 Corinthians].