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n. A person who is expert in or given to casuistry.

n. A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty.

n. Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every circumstance of behavior

n. One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.

verb-intransitive. To play the casuist.

n. One versed in or using casuistry; one who studies and resolves cases of conscience, or nice points regarding conduct.

n. Hence An over-subtle reasoner; a sophist.

To play the part of a casuist.

n. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious

"If the ascetic moralist was a quasi - mathematician, the casuist was a kind of medical man."

reasoner    ratiocinator   

controversialist    dialectician    elucidations    moralist    logician    casuistic    rhetorician    religionist    exegete    carper