Thus having triumphed over you, I will set my countenance like a
precisian, and begin to speak thus:-- Truly, my dear brethren, my master is within at dinner, with Valdes and Cornelius, as this wine, if it could speak, would inform your worships: and so, the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren!
The coldest
precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
On the debit side, historians tell us that he was a humorless
precisian, an admirer of Prussian militarism, and a withering critic of civilian control of the military.
How now Will, become a
precisian? (5.11-18) Coming in such close proximity, these senses of will ask us to see it as a kind of keyword in this scene and play.
D'Amville questions Borachio about the departing Snuffe--"Borachio, didst precisely note this man?"--drawing attention to what an audience hardly could have not noted: that he is a
precisian, whose "own profession would report him pure." D'Amville's anatomy of this character type might further suggest that his avowed atheism derives from a practical atheism at large.
He's no
precisian, that I am certain of, Nor rigid Roman Catholic.
Measurement of swelling: Knee diameter was measured using calibrated digital caliper (world
precisian Instruments, Stevenage, UK) in mm (millimeter) as described by Janet et al.
Besides being equally committed to Erastianism and sola scriptura, Jewel was divided by his work as a scholar and his duties as a bishop, and by his public persona as a staunch defender of the Elizabethan settlement and his private,
precisian leanings, which often left him frustrated with the pace and direction of English reform.
The Puritan (Latinate/pompous) diction of this phrasing of Angelo's suggests his self-importance, and thus the possibility that he may have played the
precisian unfairly, too strictly, with the woman who selflessly loves him despite his failure to comfort her when she lost her brother along with her dowry in a sea-wreck.
He also defends himself against "a rigid
Precisian, objecting, that flowers from Romish Authors extracted, became lesse wholesome and divinely redolent" (226).
The data in Table 2 indicate that the analytical intraday and interday
precisian (RSD%) were all <2%.
Every child, however, is a willful
precisian, holding parents to the letter of what is said with a "But you said...." A quite willful
precisian indeed when I was an importuning boy, I wanted to know just how long my mother's "just a moment" meant.
