英：['kæʒʊ'ɪstɪkəl]
美：['kæʒʊ'ɪstɪkəl]
casuistical如何读
casuistical是什么意思
- adj.决疑的；诡辩的
casuistical英英释义
Adjective
1. of or relating to or practicing casuistry;
"overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
2. of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems
casuistical词源英文解释
probably from Spanish casuista, from Latin casus fall, chance — more at case
The first known use of casuist was in 1609
casuistical 例句
1 Now, having stated the case, let us review the casuistical apologies put forward.
2 His real reason is explained in a long comparison between the 'simple-minded' or 'sympathetic' and the 'casuistical' man.
3 Till late at night we were kept awake by the crazy Widads: Ao Samattar had proposed the casuistical question, "Is it lawful to pray upon a mountain when a plain is at hand?"
4 Here was a casuistical proposition thrown at my head by the last person I should have suspected of doing so.
5 There is no ethical necessity more essential and vital than this: that casuistical exceptions, though admitted, should be admitted as exceptions.
6 I am not one of those who stake much on the casuistical application of ethical principles.
7 He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement.
8 They were, no doubt, often furnished to him by Nicole or Arnauld, who hunted them through the immense volumes of casuistical divinity in which they were contained.
9 No doubt the result is sufficiently repulsive to the abstract moralist, who is apt to find in Fifine nothing but a casuistical and shameless justification of evil, which is blasphemy against goodness itself.
10 They have a natural disinclination to believe that which they cannot see, and, being constitutionally very clever and casuistical, are prepared to argue each individual point with an ability very trying to missionaries.
11 But this is a dangerous and casuistical path to tread.
12 Seriously, however, there is nothing more remarkable in the history of casuistical ethics, than the utter revolution in human estimates of usury.
13 But casuistical problems of this kind do not very frequently arise, and in all ordinary circumstances strict literal veracity is the right course to pursue.
14 The article makes no attempt to give a detailed, casuistical examination of the matter of ethical theory.
15 Defective knowledge and illogical or casuistical argument alone render any other conclusion possible.
16 If the decalogue could be observed in this casuistical manner, we might be grievous sinners, and yet be liable to no reproach.
17 Discuss the following casuistical case: A child is lying on the railroad track and a locomotive is rapidly approaching.
18 Hence the casuistical or other questions which arise out of the relations of friends have not often been considered seriously in modern times.
19 These tiring and perplexing thoughts begot in him an averseness to enter into the toil of considering and determining all casuistical points; because during that time, they neither gave rest to his body or mind.
20 Before I had begun the examination, I deemed myself a most candid, truth-observing, frank witness, and now I discovered that I was casuistical and "dodgy" as an Old Bailey lawyer.
casuistical 同义词
1 曲解的
3 决疑的
4 诡辩
sophistic casuistic sophistication syllogism sophistry chicanery quiddity sophism chicane philosophism sophisticate pettifog wordsplitting choplogic legerdemain casuistry sophistries
5 曲解
skewed wry perversive misintelligence distortedness twist distortion wrench perversion falsification contortion casuistry misconstruction wiredraw color stretch bend strain torture distort pervert wring falsify extort wrest contort misconstrue garble do violence to