Definition of "precisian" [pre•ci•sian]

• One who is strict and precise in adherence to established rules, forms, or standards, especially with regard to religious observance or moral behavior. (noun)
• A Puritan. (noun)

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• "Scrivener and "precisian" as his father was, he was a skilled musician, and the boy inherited his father's skill on lute and organ."
• ""precisian" zealots held, by the governor-general's permission and under his protection, a synod at Dort, June, 1586, and endeavoured to organise the Reformed Church in accordance with their strict principles of exclusiveness."
• "It will be hours of argument with that rule-bound precisian Androctus, hours of searching for precedent in the Solamnic Measure of Knighthood."