Precisian

n.	1.	One who limits, or restrains.
	2.	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. - Macaulay.

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