Definitions for precisian

precisian pre·ci·sian

Spelling: [pri-sizh-uh n]
IPA: /prɪˈsɪʒ ən/

Precisian is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 598 anagrams from letters in precisian (aceiinprs).

Definitions for precisian

noun

  1. a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
  2. one of the English Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of precisian

First recorded in 1565-75; precise + -ian

Examples for precisian

The precisian, they say, disapproved of Danton's lax and heedless courses.

A precisian, however, could take his tobacco with a difference.

"A sister of mine will be there," explained the one, knowing the Duke to be a precisian.

But do not be too much of a precisian, or you will paralyze me.

I believe I am something of a precisian myself, but upon such a consideration, and in Paris, I should not hesitate an instant.

He had precisian leanings, and so had the clerk o' the council.

Let the precisian explain it as he may, that is our way of accounting for an experience both fruitful and astounding.

His public career shows more of the doctrinaire and precisian than can be found in any other one of these.

The form-master of the Upper Remove happened to be a precisian in English.

Puritan in religion, she was precisian in morals; but in both she was sincere.

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