A precisian, however, could take his tobacco with a difference.
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The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
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The precisian, they say, disapproved of Danton's lax and heedless courses.
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He had precisian leanings, and so had the clerk o' the council.
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The form-master of the Upper Remove happened to be a precisian in English.
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But do not be too much of a precisian, or you will paralyze me.
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His public career shows more of the doctrinaire and precisian than can be found in any other one of these.
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Let the precisian explain it as he may, that is our way of accounting for an experience both fruitful and astounding.
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I believe I am something of a precisian myself, but upon such a consideration, and in Paris, I should not hesitate an instant.
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Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler. Puritans, then, were distinguished for being "more intensely protestant than their protestant neighbors or even the Church of England". As a term of abuse, Puritan was not used by Puritans themselves. Those referred to as Puritan called themselves terms such as "the godly", "saints", "professors", or "God's children".
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According to Raleigh a new type of precisian puritan objected feasts on the Sabbath. Historian Jonathan Barry has demonstrated that ritualism in Somerset linked some clergy and women in outdoor ceremonies to alleged witchcraft; ministers of ejected livings dabbling with Shamanism. The Personal Rule's policies made Piers very unpopular. Ship Money in 1635 collected inland became bitterly resented in puritan villages of North Somerset. In 1636 he decided to appoint his son William Piers as Rector of Buckland St Mary.
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He took priest's orders on 9 June 1560, and became canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 5 July following. In 1561 Calfhill superintended the reinterment of the remains of Catherine, wife of Peter Martyr, at Christ Church. He had the bones of Catherine and relics of Frideswide intermingled. In May 1562 Calfhill became rector of St. Andrew Wardrobe, London, and was proctor both for the clergy of London and the chapter of Oxford in the convocation of 1563, where he was a conspicuous "precisian", with Arthur Saul.
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The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England. The designation "Puritan" is often incorrectly used, notably based on the assumption that hedonism and puritanism are antonyms: historically, the word was used to characterise the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France, and according to Thomas Fuller in his Church History dated back to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of stickler.
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There were further proposals from reformers, in particular on canon law and liturgy, some of which originated from a group among the bishops. These, however, proved contentious, and did not pass. Subsequent contestation of the same issues made some of them a matter of authority. Collinson comments that > Moves to improve the settlement in the convocation of 1563 were led by the > bishops rather than by 'Puritans' in the lower house [...] Dawley writes that probably the surprise of the Convocation > [...] was not the amount of support given to the Precisians but the > unexpected extent of loyalty to the existing regulations, "Precisian" being the term used by Parker for his opponents on the issue of clerical dress.
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