Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scruple \Scru"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Scrupled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Skrupling}.]
   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.