Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Exact; nice; definite; having determinate limitations; not loose, vague, uncertain or equivocal; as precise rules of morality; precise directions for life and conduct.
2. The law in this point is precise
3. For the hour precise
4. Exacts our parting.
5. Formal; superstitiously exact; excessively nice; punctilious in conduct or ceremony.
1. Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
2. Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
1. Exactly; nicely; accurately; in exact conformity to truth or to a model. The ideas are precisely expressed. The time of an eclipse may be precisely determined by calculation.
2. When more of these orders than one are to be set in several stories, there must be an exquisite care to place the columns precisely one over another.
1. Exactness; rigid nicety; as the preciseness of words or expressions.
2. I will distinguish the cases; though give me leave, in handling them, not to sever them with too much preciseness
3. Excessive regard to forms or rules; rigid formality.
1. s as z. One that limits or restrains.
2. One who is rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules.
1. One who limits, or restrains.
2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
1. Excessive exactness; superstitious rigor.
2. [These two words are, I believe, little used, or not at all.]
A precisian.
s as z. [Latin proecisio.] Exact limitation; exactness; accuracy. precision in the use of words is a prime excellence in discourse; it is indispensable in controversy, in legal instruments and in mathematical calculations. Neither perspicuity nor precision should be sacrificed to ornament.
The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
Exactly limiting by separating what is not relative to the purpose; as precisive abstraction.
Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
Compendium Roget’s Thesaurus §596
N. compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression
V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize, make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract, recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up, abbreviate, condense, compile
Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words
Phr. it lies in a nutshell
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