Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-CISE'LY, adv.

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