单词 | casuist |
释义 | casuistn. A theologian (or other person) who studies and resolves cases of conscience or doubtful questions regarding duty and conduct. (Often with a sinister application: see casuistry n.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist sophisterc1380 Duns man1528 chop-loge1542 dunser?1550 shifter1567 chop-logic1575 sophist1581 casuist1616 casualist1633 Jesuit1640 logicaster1683 chopper1699 special pleader1796 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > moral theology > adherent of casuist1616 casuistess1865 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. v, in Wks. I. 576 To talke with a Casuist about his diuorce. View more context for this quotation a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) Pref. Like an exact casuist does he not make conscience man's keeper and judge? 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iii. v. 31 Like cunning Casuists, as all Lovers are. 1668 J. Denham Poems 179 Casuists, like Cocks, struck out each others Eyes. 1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 1 Who shall decide, when Doctors dis-agree, And soundest Casuists doubt, like you and me? 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 359. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) iii. 71 Provided we state a real reason..it is agreed by all casuists, that we are not bound to state every reason. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 566 Casuists willing and competent to soothe his conscience with sophisms. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] to chop logic1528 to play the sophister?1550 Jesuit1601 casuist1643 special-plead1702 special-plead1848 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 44 Wee never leave subtilizing and casuisting. ˈcasuistess n. a female casuist. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist > female sophistress1631 casuistess1865 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > moral theology > adherent of casuist1616 casuistess1865 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 181 No casuistess in the Gay Science. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adverb] sophisticallya1382 fallaciously1612 Jesuitically1624 casuistly1650 casuistically1678 verbalistically1934 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 7 Uncasuistly or unconscientiously asserted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1616 |
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