Meaning of POINT-DEVICE
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\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.
\Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
adv.
Exactly. [Obs.] --Shak.
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