precisian

Precisian \Pre*ci"sian\, n.
   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.
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            The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the
            dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "precisian":
      Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking,
      bourgeois, burgher, captious critic, compulsive character,
      conformer, conformist, conventionalist, elegant, euphemistic,
      euphuistic, exact, exquisite, formalist, formalistic,
      goody good-good, goody-goody, methodical, methodologist,
      meticulous, middle-class type, mincing, model child, namby-pamby,
      nitpicker, orderly, organization man, overnice, overprecise,
      overrefined, parrot, pedant, pedantic, perfectionist,
      plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precious, precise,
      precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic,
      punctilious, purist, puristic, scrupulous, sheep, simpering,
      square, stickler, teenybopper, traditionalist, trimmer, yes-man