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n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in casualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being casual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Casualties [ F. casualité, LL. casualitas. ] 1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Losses that befall them by mere casualty. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of large ostrichlike birds; the cassowaries.
Syn. -- family Casuaridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of ratite birds comprising the cassowaries and emus.
Syn. -- order Casuariiformes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., supposed to be named from the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the cassowary, of the genus Casuarius. ] (Bot.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of plants having only one genus, Casuarina.
Syn. -- family Casuarinaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas, having only one family, Casuarinaceae.
Syn. -- order Casuarinales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type and sole genus of the Casuaridae; the cassowaries.
Syn. -- genus Casuarius. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. casus fall, case; cf. F. casuiste. See Casual. ] One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the casuist. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casus belli, an event or combination of events which is a cause war, or may be alleged as a justification of war. --
Casus fortuitus, an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act. --
Casus omissus, a case not provided for by the statute. [ 1913 Webster ]