a. [f. prec. + -IC.] = next. (Often with a sinister application: see CASUISTRY.)

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1660.  Gauden, Brownrig, 208. All points and parts of Religion, Dogmatick, Polemick, Practick, Casuistick.

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1816.  Monthly Mag., XLII. 36. Diving into the weedy pool of casuistic argument.

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1872.  Tulloch, Ration. Theol., I. vi. 353. Those casuistic tendencies which … gave complexion to his [Jeremy Taylor’s] theological culture.

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1875.  I. G. Smith, Dict. Chr. Antiq., s.v. Celibacy, The great casuistic Epistle [1 Corinthians].

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