casuist

They were in fact working canon lawyers and casuists.

This was theorized by casuists as the doctrine of mental reservation.

The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Speculatively regarded, it well might be referred to a jury of casuists.

"Now, do you know what I always say to casuists...?"

Other casuists considered "grey areas" in which it was unclear whether or not the seal was being violated.

But for us here acting not as casuists or moralists, it is a case practical, and under martial law practically to be dealt with.

"You will deliver yourself up, then, bound hand and foot, from a false notion of honor, which the most scrupulous casuists would disdain?"

It was not until much later, he declares, that the casuists ("poseḳim") established such ordinances as a part of the Law.

They are superficial casuists.

Her Casuists go off like firecrackers when she touches them with her match; we have seen no previous sign of gunpowder being loaded.

The Archbishop dismisses reports of the proof until he is told that the Casuists have it, whereupon he springs to action.

Perhaps the iron entered his soul then; happily the casuists of 1940 ran into a Churchill who was not to be deflected by misty higher wisdom.

The editor of the Casuists' high-brow and controversial journal falls on the floor in a mix of joy and fear when he opens the envelope.

Two further decrees, of 24 September 1665 and 18 March 1666, condemned the Casuists' "laxist morality".

George dispatched an S.O.S. for one of the leading casuists of Hell proper.

It rather unfortunately claimed as its own Pascal's interpretations of the Casuists' propositions, in particular concerning controversial propositions about homicides.

A rake, a man about town, fond of gaiety, of theatres, of variety, of conviviality, say - ye casuists - how was it?

But the women of the mediaeval Cours d'Amour (the originals from whom the old romancers drew) were nothing if not casuists.

Oh no; it was a great bench of priests and monks--profoundly leaned and astute casuists--renowned professors of theology!

In total, the Vatican had condemned 110 Propositions issued by Casuists, 57 of which had been treated in the Provinciales.

The Casuists - they are the Jesuits, of course, in Laurence Cosse's metaphysical fable - are known for their brainy logic.

The lobbies of geezers and greens, of veterans and farmers, of root casuists at Justice and corporate welfare queens of Commerce are stunned.

Pascal had discussed it a few years earlier while recording "how the casuists reconcile the contrarieties between their opinions and the decisions of the popes, the councils, and the Scripture."

Perhaps M. de Roquelaure merely had recourse to what casuists call a pious fraud in order to engage the married couple to do that which he congratulated them on having already done.