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Meaning of POINT-DEVICE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
    a. [OE. at point devis; at at + point point, condition +
    devis exact, careful, OF. devis fixed, set. See {Device}.]
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
          You are rather point-devise in your accouterments.
                                                   --Shak.
          Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in
          grammar, and in rhetoric nice.           --Longfellow.
    
  2. \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
    adv.
    Exactly. [Obs.] --Shak.
    
 
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