Casuist Definition

kăzho͝o-ĭst
noun
A person expert in, or inclined to resort to, casuistry.
Webster's New World

Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behavior.

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Noun

Singular:
casuist
Plural:
casuists

Origin of Casuist

  • French casuiste from Spanish casuista from Latin cāsus case case1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French casuiste, from Spanish casuista, from Latin casus (“case”)

    From Wiktionary

Casuist Sentence Examples

  • He also gained much reputation as a casuist.

  • The legal is the older group, and to it the name of casuist is often exclusively reserved, generally with the implication that its methods are too purely technical to commend themselves to mankind at large.

  • The casuist's duty was to apply the general precepts of the Church to particular cases.

  • Pope was never tired of girding at "Morality by her false guardians drawn, Chicane in furs, and casuistry in lawn"; while Fielding has embodied the popular conception of a casuist in Parson Thwackum and Philosopher Square, both of whom only take to argument when they want to reason themselves out of some obvious duty.

  • The confessor brought the casuist's principles to bear on the conscience of his penitents, and thus saved them from the danger of acting on their own responsibility (see Casuistry).

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TSTIST

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