minutely-defined

Updated: June 22, 2025

"Roi" also was not heard of; but, in his place, I found a minutely-defined social organization, which, if it ever came into practice, would exert a despotic authority such as no sultan has rivalled, and no Puritan presbytery, in its palmiest days, could hope to excel.

Thomas Henry Huxley - Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews