precisian
Americannoun
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a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
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one of the English Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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His public career shows more of the doctrinaire and precisian than can be found in any other one of these.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
He is no precisian in attire; but by all accounts, he was never so ill-inspired as on that tramp; having set forth indeed, upon a moment's notice, from the most unfashionable spot in Europe, Barbizon.
From Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson
He was a pathetic figure, Arthur Gideon, the intolerant precisian, fighting savagely against the tide of loose thinking that he saw surging in upon him, swamping the world and drowning facts.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
"I believe I am something of a precisian myself, but upon such a consideration, and in Paris, I should not hesitate an instant."
From New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
Precise′ness; Preci′sian, an over-precise person: a formalist: a puritan; Preci′sianism; Preci′sianist, Preci′sionist, a precisian; Preci′sion, quality of being precise: exactness: accuracy.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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