Category:Precisian

Pre*ci"sian, n.

1. One who limits, or restrains. [obs.]

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.