Brewer's: Casuist

(3 syl.). One who resolves casus conscientiæ (cases of conscience). M. le Fevre calls casuistry “the art of quibbling with God.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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