casuist
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casuist
- /ˈkæʒuːɪst/
- /ˈkæzjuːɪst/
Where it comes from
From French casuiste, from Spanish casuista, from Latin casus (“case”).
noun casuists
- A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty.
- Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behaviour. Something, indeed, not unlike the doctrine of the casuists, seems to have been attempted by several philosophers. There is something of this kind in the third book of Cicero's offices, where he endeavours like a casuist to give rules for our conduct in many nice cases, in which it is difficult to de
- One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. The judgment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence.
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