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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as -istic.
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Examples
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Absolutist in ethics though he was, he employed here the current casu - istical distinction between a government which re - mains within its legitimate rights and thus can demand absolute candor of its subjects, and one which goes beyond them and may under certain circumstances be treated differently.
CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968
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Spanish merely to read Don Quixote: it would be worth while to learn a little algebra merely to enjoy this a b-istical attack on the windmills.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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D. Author of a "View of the D.istical Writers," 2 vols. 8vo.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Adam Ferguson 1769
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And shall we be very free, my little athe - istical disbelieving dog?
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a secret that I cannot find out; none of our eccle - istical historiang, that I have seen, taking notice
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... John Nichols, Samuel Bentley 1812
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