adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a casuistical manner; sophistically.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 898. Themselves are necessitated … Casuistically to allow [etc.].
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 282. [Jeremy Taylor] obtained in that house much of that learning wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically.
1856. Dove, Logic Chr. Faith, Introd. 6. A similar method may be casuistically brought to bear against theology.
