Pre*ci"sian (?), n.
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.
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