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