Definition of Precisian. Meaning of Precisian. Synonyms of Precisian

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Definition of Precisian

Precisian
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.

Meaning of Precisian from wikipedia

- the word to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler. Puritans, then, were distinguished...
- History, dated back to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker used "puritan" and "precisian" with the sense of stickler. T. D. Bozeman therefore uses instead the...
- satire against Puritans. Various factors combined to make the godly or "precisians" obvious targets of ridicule. Though religious violence was comparatively...
- competent illustrator as well as a biologist. Without having Nabokov's precisianism and anti-Darwinism, he brought an artistic sensibility to bear on these...
- we have recovered from the first shock inevitable to us typographical precisians”. Perhaps Imprint’s most notable use since then has been for the entire...
- 2307/793465. JSTOR 793465. Reid, J. P. (1959–1960). "The Reformer and the Precisian: A Study in Judicial Attitudes". Journal of Legal Education. 12 (2): 157...
- we have recovered from the first shock inevitable to us typographical precisians”. Its design was carried out by the Monotype engineering team in Salfords...
- chapter of Oxford in the convocation of 1563, where he was a con****uous "precisian", with Arthur Saul. On 14 December 1562 he was presented by the queen...
- enjoy at Thanksgiving and Christmas. According to Raleigh a new type of precisian puritan objected feasts on the Sabbath. Historian Jonathan Barry has demonstrated...
- amount of support given to the Precisians but the unexpected extent of loyalty to the existing regulations, "Precisian" being the term used by Parker...