Dictionary entry

Precisian

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pre‐ci″sian (?), n. 1. One who limits, or restrains.

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.