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Definition of Precisian
1. n. One who limits, or restrains.
Definition of Precisian
1. Noun. A religious purist; a Puritan. ¹
2. Noun. Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precisian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precisian
Literary usage of Precisian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Ha man be a Herod within and a John without, a wicked politician in a ruff of
precisian set, God can distinguish him. 1694. GILDON, Mis. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"A precisian well described : Upon recovery ¡:rew a great ... These men for all
the world like our precisian* be, Who, for some cross or saint they in tue ..."
3. Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century, by Henry Morley (1891)
"A precisian. To speak no otherwise of this varnished rottenness than in truth
and verity he is, I must define him to be a demure creature, ..."
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