Adjective: casuistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more casuistic |
| Superlative | most casuistic |
Sample Sentences
-
1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
-
These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, "Is a blind man sound?"
Adjectives inflected like casuistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English casuist
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English casuistic
10. From casuist + -ic.
Verbs referencing "casuistic"
Finnish Adjectives
kasuistinen.