(ethics) A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty. / Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behaviour.

Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules). / Overly subtle, hair-splitting.

(manner) Using casuistry or casuistics. / (domain) From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.

casuistic

plural of casuist

Casuistry. / (medicine) The recording and study of individual cases.

The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.

plural of casuistry