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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pre·ci·sian /prɪˈsɪʒən/
 嚴謹的人,呆板的人,挑剔的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pre·ci·sian n.
 1. One who limits, or restrains. [Obs.]
 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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