precisian

/pri-sizh-uhn/US // prɪˈsɪʒ ən //UK // (prɪˈsɪʒən) //

早熟,早熟的,早产儿,早期的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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

I am, it may be, a little of a precisian, and I wish to Heaven I was mair worthy of the name; but let that be a pass-over.
I am myself no fastidious precisian, being in a Labour Company, but there are limits—or should be.
But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at.
The man, affrighted at this apparition, Upon recovery grew a great precisian.
It is fair enough to call it an elegiac poem, though a precisian might object to the term.