casuist (kazuist)

[F. casuiste = Sp. Pg. It. casuist a (İt. also casista ), The judgment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul is not sufficient to give him confidence. South . Those spiritual guardians,... the only casuists who could safely determine the doubtful line of duty. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., i. 17. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 757. Hence-2. An over-subtle reasoner; a sophist. Their gettings in this voyage, other commodities, & their towns, were casually consumed by fire. That it might casually have been formed so. Bentley , Sermons, v. The squash-vines were clambering tumultuously upon an old wooden framework, set casually aslant against the Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xvi. fence.