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PRECI'SELY, adverb 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.

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. With excess of formality; with scrupulous exactness or punctiliousness in behavior or ceremony.