2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the
observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English
Puritans.
The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of
the emancipated precisian.
Macaulay.
Pre*ci"sian*ism (?), n. The quality or state of being a precisian; the
practice of a precisian. Milton.
Pre*ci"sian*ist, n. A precisian.
Pre*ci"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. prÈcision, L. praecisio a cutting off. See
Precise.] The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation;
exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard;
definiteness.