Punctilio: alternatives and connections

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understand…

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the gov…

A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrati…

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually appli…

Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.

Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matter…

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.

a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public; "a public nuisance offends the public at la…

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerate…

Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate…

To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the ou…

Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena…

To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especial…

Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irre…