a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Pertaining to casuists or casuistry; relating to the solving of cases of conscience.
1649. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 617. His Casuisticall Sermon, wherein the Prophet at large resolves the Jews in a case of conscience touching Fasting.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, II. iii. 293. The endless Subtleties and Intricacies of Casuistical Divinity.
1791. Boswell, Johnson (1831), V. 201. We talked of the casuistical question, ‘Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from truth?’
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., V. xxiii. 143. We also see in Anselm himself the beginning of those casuistical distinctions.
