Definition of "casuistic" in Englisch

adjective

1. Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules).

2. Overly subtle, hair-splitting.

   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?"