Precisian

Scrivener and "precisian" as his father was, he was a skilled musician, and the boy inherited his father's skill on lute and organ. ❋ John Richard Green (1860)

"precisian" zealots held, by the governor-general's permission and under his protection, a synod at Dort, June, 1586, and endeavoured to organise the Reformed Church in accordance with their strict principles of exclusiveness. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)

It will be hours of argument with that rule-bound precisian Androctus, hours of searching for precedent in the Solamnic Measure of Knighthood. ❋ Sydney Kilgore (2010)

Nobody is more free from the ostentatious correctness of the literary precisian, and nobody preserves so much purity and so much dignity of language with so little formality of demeanor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But since that, Tony married a pure precisian, and is as good ❋ Unknown (2004)

“How!” said Tressilian, who now for the first time interfered in their conversation; “did ye not say this Foster was married, and to a precisian?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Why, you are not turned precisian or puritan, fool?” said ❋ Unknown (2004)

I am, it may be, a little of a precisian, and I wish to ❋ Unknown (2004)

But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But do not be too much of a precisian, or "you will unnerve me of my strength." ❋ Plato (1975)

'If it was all bluff I never saw a better piece of acting, -- and yet what sort of finger can such a precisian as St Paul have in such a pie? ❋ Richard Marsh (N/A)

In fact, he was something of a precisian in politics. ❋ Various (N/A)

His fashion and demure habit gets him in with some town-precisian, and makes him a guest on Friday nights. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

The "noble commander" of the Rhode Island most of us had known of old as a prim little precisian, and a great stickler for etiquette, and by no means a bad fellow; but so strict a constructionist that he would probably have refused to recognize his grandfather, if it were against orders. ❋ John Wilkinson (N/A)

"Go, then, old precisian!" exclaimed Abou Hassan, fiercely; "cling to disgrace, and practise beggary; and yet, remember, one word can change your state, banish poverty, and summon plenty." ❋ H. N. Crellin (N/A)

He was a pathetic figure, Arthur Gideon, the intolerant precisian, fighting savagely against the tide of loose thinking that he saw surging in upon him, swamping the world and drowning facts. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)

Her mouth was scarlet, all curves, and her complexion was famous for its brilliancy; only a precisian would have objected that she possessed the Valois nose, long and thin and somewhat unduly overhanging the mouth. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Then Jurgen was somewhat abashed, and felt that it did not become him, who had so recently cut off the head of his own wife, to assume the airs of a precisian. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Her mouth was scarlet, all curves, and her complexion famous for its brilliancy; only a precisian would have objected that she possessed the Valois nose, long and thin and somewhat unduly overhanging the mouth. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Poor penitent Von Plaanden even apologized to Carroll, fortunately not having heard of the American's threat, and made a most favorable impression upon that precisian. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)