Locke.
Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. -- Precision,
Preciseness. Precision is always used in a good sense; as, precision of
thought or language; precision in military evolutions. Preciseness is
sometimes applied to persons or their conduct in a disparaging sense,
and precise is often used in the same way.
Pre*ci"sive (?), a. Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting
off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive
censure; precisive abstraction. I. Watts.
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Pre*clude" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Precluded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Precluding.] [L. praecludere, praeclusum; prae before + claudere to
shut. See Close, v.] 1. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to
hinder; to stop; to impede.
The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins.
E. Darwin.
2. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by
necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to,
employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
This much will obviate and preclude the objections.
Bentley.
Pre*clu"sion (?), n. [L. praeclusio. See Preclude.] The act of
precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.
Pre*clu"sive (?), a. Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude;
hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.