Scru″ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Scrupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Scrupling (?).] To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. Fuller.
Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. South.