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Pu·ri·tan·ic Pu·ri·tan·ic·al a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt.
Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. --Macaulay.
He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. --Hawthorne.
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puritanic
adj : morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work
ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was
anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a),
puritan, puritanical]