Found 1 items, similar to Precisian.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Precisian Precisian \Pre*ci"sian\, n. 1. One who limits, or restrains. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. [1913 Webster] The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]