Citations:casuistry

Noun: "medical or ethical case history"
"You're getting profound, Pat, as well as clever." In spite of his perturbation, the doctor smiled. "Though you're talking casuistry." "I don’t know what that is. I'm talking sense."
 * 1923 —, Flaming Youth
 * " it’s the thing he’s most to blame for. It’s worse than the other. It goes deeper."