n. 1. One who limits, or restrains. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A precisian. [ 1913 Webster ]