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Webster 1913 Edition
Precisian
Pre-ci′sian
,Noun.
1.
One who limits, or restrains.
[Obs.]
2.
An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; – formerly applied to the English Puritans.
The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated
precisian
. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Precisian
PRECI'SIAN
,Noun.
1.
One who is rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules.