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."
... a new genre in Sanskrit literature. Hindu critics class the poem with The Dynasty of Raghu and The Birth of the War-god as a kavya, or learned epic. This it obviously is not. It is fair enough to call it an elegiac poem, though a precisian might object ... — Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
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