precisian

[ pri-sizh-uhn ]

noun

1. a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
2. one of the English Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries.

precisian

/ prɪˈsɪʒən /

noun

1. a punctilious observer of rules or forms, esp in the field of religion

Derived Forms

• preˈcisianism, noun

Other Words From

• pre·cisian·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of precisian¹

First recorded in 1565–75; precise + -ian

Example Sentences

I am, it may be, a little of a precisian, and I wish to Heaven I was mair worthy of the name; but let that be a pass-over.

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I am myself no fastidious precisian, being in a Labour Company, but there are limits—or should be.

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But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at.

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The man, affrighted at this apparition, Upon recovery grew a great precisian.

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It is fair enough to call it an elegiac poem, though a precisian might object to the term.

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