Precisian

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Precisian \Pre*ci"sian\, n.
     1. One who limits, or restrains. [Obs.]
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     2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact
        in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly


        applied to the English Puritans.
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              The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the
              dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "precisian":
     Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking,
     bourgeois, burgher, captious critic, compulsive character,
     conformer, conformist, conventionalist, elegant, euphemistic,
     euphuistic, exact, exquisite, formalist, formalistic,
     goody good-good, goody-goody, methodical, methodologist,
     meticulous, middle-class type, mincing, model child, namby-pamby,
     nitpicker, orderly, organization man, overnice, overprecise,
     overrefined, parrot, pedant, pedantic, perfectionist,
     plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precious, precise,
     precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic,
     punctilious, purist, puristic, scrupulous, sheep, simpering,
     square, stickler, teenybopper, traditionalist, trimmer, yes-man